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Woodrow Wilson: “I shall adopt twenty of these children as my own temporary wards.”

On the recordDecember 12, 1920
I shall adopt twenty of these children as my own temporary wards.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Written Address to the Nation on Relief of Starving Children in Europe

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