Warren Harding: “Doctor Whitman, your long ride and frozen limbs testify to your courage and your patriotism. Your credentials establish…”

If war must come again—God grant that it shall not!—then we must draft all of the nation in carrying on.

Through such effort as this there will be opportunity for a great service.

As President, speaking for the United States, I am more interested in adherence to such a tribunal in the best form attainable than I am concerned about the triumph of Presidential insistence.

If our people are ever to decide upon war, they will choose to decide according to our own national conscience at the time and in the constitutional manner without advance commitment, or the advice or consent of any other Power.