Woodrow Wilson said "It is earnestly hoped, moreover, that, acting in the same spirit as the Federal Departmental officials, all citizens who may be called upon, as employers, to make affidavits for securing the discharge of persons deemed to be indispensable to national industrial interests during the emergency, will exercise the same conscientious and scrupulous caution to the end that there will appear to be no favored or exempted class among the citizens called by law to the national defense." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJuly 27, 1917

It is earnestly hoped, moreover, that, acting in the same spirit as the Federal Departmental officials, all citizens who may be called upon, as employers, to make affidavits for securing the discharge of persons deemed to be indispensable to national industrial interests during the emergency, will exercise the same conscientious and scrupulous caution to the end that there will appear to be no favored or exempted class among the citizens called by law to the national defense.

Said by

Woodrow Wilson

Democratic · New Jersey

Source

presidency.ucsb.edu

Editor's note · Context

Executive Order 2673A—Explaining Exemption of Indispensable Government Employees From the Selective Draft

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