The United States will play a new part, and that it will be a part of unprecedented opportunity and of greatly increased responsibility.
Woodrow Wilson: “The United States will play a new part, and that it will be a part of unprecedented opportunity and of greatly increased…”
On the recordJuly 9, 1916
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Address to the Salesmanship Congress in Detroit, Michigan
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