Well, I graduated from a high school named after today’s featured president. On this date in 1913, President Woodrow Wilson made a speech in which he assured everyone that the U.S. would never attack another country. He was speaking before the Southern Commercial Congress, and here are his exact words that closed this speech:
“I want to take this occasion to say that the United States will never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest. She will devote herself to showing that she knows how to make honorable and fruitful use of the territory she has, and she must regard it as one of the duties of friendship to see that from no quarter are material interests made superior to human liberty and national opportunity.”
I don’t think much of President Wilson anyway, but I would say this was a pretty dumb thing to say. I understand that he wanted to assure the world that the U.S. was going to stay out of world conflicts and concentrate on the homeland, but as we know, that didn’t happen. It actually gives me a chuckle to read through the more of the speech found here:
For more info:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Woodrow_Wilson
http://www.brainyhistory.com/days/october_27.html
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LOL Obviously he was the only president to think this way!
Thanks for the new learn today
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Wasn’t he the President during world War1 and weren’t we involved in that one too?
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Yes, he was. And yes we were. It truly doesn’t make sense, does it?
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