Inaugural Address
03/04/1917
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I submit my difficulties and my hopes to you.
I have no thought of suggesting that any political party is paramount in matters of patriotism.
The return of a Republican majority to either House of the Congress would, moreover, certainly be interpreted on the other side of the water...
We cannot isolate our thought or our action in such a matter from the thought of the rest of the world.