Woodrow Wilson: “We are dealing, gentlemen of the Congress, I need hardly say, with, very critical and very difficult matters.”

A recommendation at this time that suitable legislative action should be taken may appear somewhat premature, but in view of the approaching termination of my administration I have brought this matter to your attention, hoping that…

I think, therefore, that the bill should not become law and that the tract should be made a Federal bird reservation for the protection of the birds which now frequent the lands.

The burdens of war are not lifted when the fighting ceases.

For many months there has been a demand that war agencies should be abolished and that there should be less Government interference with business.