Woodrow Wilson wonders what he has done

Woodrow Wilson was puzzled at the exultant reaction to his April 1917 speech to Congress asking for a declaration of war. ‘My message tonight was a message of death for our young men… How strange it seems to applaud that.’

John Milton Cooper, Jr, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (2009), p. 388.

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