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Woodrow Wilson: To declare this chapter in the history of the United States closed and ended, and I bid you turn with me with your faces…

On the recordJune 3, 1914
To declare this chapter in the history of the United States closed and ended, and I bid you turn with me with your faces to the future, quickened by the memories of the past, but with nothing to do with the contests of the past.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at Arlington National Cemetary: "Closing a Chapter

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