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On the recordSeptember 17, 1919
It is our duty to look in the face the real circumstances of the world in order that we may not be unfaithful to the great duty which America undertook in the hour and day of her birth.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at the Oakland Civic Auditorium in Oakland, California

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