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a presentation of Odyssey in partnership with Puck, wherever you get your podcasts. He wrote it himself in a day's time. As March gave way to April 1917, President Woodrow Wilson prepared an address to Congress

and to the nation that would in its way signal the unmistakable arrival of modernity in the new world.

For nearly three years, since the late summer of 1914, Wilson had resisted calls for

America to enter the Great War, a European struggle of staggering

magnitude.

Now circumstances had he believed forced his hand. He'd take the nation into the storm.

And so on Monday, April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson went to Capitol Hill and

addressed a crowded chamber.

He said,

It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war,

into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars,

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