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Woodrow Wilson: It is not an army that we must shape and train for war--it is a Nation.

On the recordMay 17, 1917
It is not an army that we must shape and train for war--it is a Nation.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Proclamation 1370—Conscription

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