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Woodrow Wilson: “The next war would have to be paid for in American blood and American money.”

On the recordSeptember 10, 1919
The next war would have to be paid for in American blood and American money.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Opera House (Marlow Theater) in Helena, Montana

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