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Woodrow Wilson's Memorandum to His Secretary, Joseph Tumulty

Memo

By: Woodrow Wilson

Date: 1918

Source: Baker, Ray Stannard, ed. Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters: Armistice, March 1–November 11, 1918. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1939, 362.

About the Author: Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924), political scientist and president of Princeton University, served as President of the United States from 1913–1921. Wilson led America to victory over Imperial Germany in the First World War, but failed to reconstruct the international political order when the United States Senate rejected his ambitious plans for America to join the newly formed League of Nations.

"Chicagoans Cheer Tar Who Shot
Man"

Newspaper article

Date: 1919

Source: "Chicagoans Cheer Tar Who Shot Man," Washington Post, May 7,...