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Woodrow Wilson: “It now gives me pleasure to lay before the Congress, for its information, a statement of all the expenditures of the…”

On the recordDecember 7, 1920
It now gives me pleasure to lay before the Congress, for its information, a statement of all the expenditures of the American commission to negotiate peace for the entire period of its existence from December 1, 1918, to December 31, 1919.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Special Message to Congress on Expenses of the American Peace Mission to Paris

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