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Woodrow Wilson: “Especially do I recommend that the day be fittingly observed in the universities, colleges and schools of our country…”

On the recordAugust 3, 1920
Especially do I recommend that the day be fittingly observed in the universities, colleges and schools of our country, to the end that salutary and patriotic lessons may be drawn from the fortitude and perseverance and the ideals of this little band of church-men and -women.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Written Address to the Nation on the Tercentenary of Landing of Pilgrims at Plymouth

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