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Woodrow Wilson: “We are ready to plead at the bar of history, and our flag shall wear a new lustre.”

On the recordJune 13, 1917
We are ready to plead at the bar of history, and our flag shall wear a new lustre.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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