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Woodrow Wilson

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Woodrow Wilson

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 17 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Printed speech in booklet form, “Address of the President of the United States, Delivered at a Joint Session of the Two Houses of Congress, April 2, 1917,” 6 x 9, ten pages, issued by the Government Printing Office. Historic speech in which Wilson asks the US Congress for a declaration of war on Germany. Signed at the conclusion in black ink by Wilson. In very good condition, with two horizontal folds, scattered creases, a couple areas of paper loss to back cover, as well as some mounting remnants and some mild soiling and handling wear. A historic speech from Wilson, as he had spent almost three years trying to keep the Uniterd States out of the conflict, with thereal threat of German submarines, Wilson had no choice but to enter the war to ‘make the world safe for democracy.’