Woodrow Wilson actually said...

I am glad to get out to see the real folks, to feel the touch of their hand, and know, as I have come to know, how the Nation stands together in the common purpose to complete what the boys did who carried their guns with them over the sea.

Context

Address from Rear Platform in Mandan, North Dakota

09/09/1919

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