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Woodrow Wilson: It has been a hard thing to take part in directing what you did without coming over and helping you do it.

On the recordDecember 24, 1918
It has been a hard thing to take part in directing what you did without coming over and helping you do it.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Remarks to United States Soldiers at Humes, France

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