On the recordJanuary 28, 1916
I say it because I am confident that the men in Congress know a national necessity when they see it.
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presidency.ucsb.eduWoodrow Wilson: “I say it because I am confident that the men in Congress know a national necessity when they see it.”
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Address to an Overflow Meeting at Soldiers' Memorial Hall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvanis
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