Woodrow Wilson actually said...

I direct that the greatest care be exercised by Department officials in issuing the affidavits of necessity

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

07/27/1917

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There can in what we do be no thought of aggression or of selfish aggrandizement.