02/25/1917
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"Shall America redeem her pledges to the world?"
"I have come away from Washington to discuss them because apparently it is difficult to discuss them in Washington."
"After all the various angles at which you have heard the treaty held up, perhaps you would like to know what is in the treaty."
"I have come to report to you upon the work which the representatives of the United States attempted to do at the conference of peace on the other side of the sea."