Woodrow Wilson: Speeches, Inaugural Addresses, State of the Union Addresses, Executive Decisions & Messages to Congress

by Wilson, Woodrow; Daniels, Josephus

• ISBN13: 9788027334360
• ISBN10: 8027334365
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2019-10-16
• Publisher: Madison & Adams Press

Summary

Woodrow Wilson was a leading force in the Progressive Movement, and during his first term he oversaw the passage of progressive legislative policies unparalleled until the New Deal, He led the United States during World War I and was one of the 3 key leaders at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where he championed a new League of Nations. Contents: • Biography of Woodrow Wilson • Inaugural Addresses: • First Inaugural Address (4 March 1913) • Second Inaugural Address (4 March 1917) • State of the Union Addresses • I State of the Union address (2 December 1913) • II State of the Union address (8 December 1914) • III State of the Union address (7 December 1915) • IV State of the Union address (5 December 1916) • V State of the Union address (4 December 1917) • VI State of the Union address (2 December 1918) • VII State of the Union address (2 December 1919) • VIII State of the Union address (7 December 1920) • Other Addresses: • First Address to Congress • Address on the Banking System • Address at Gettysburg • Address on Mexican Affairs • Understanding America • Address before the Southern Commercial Congress • Trusts and Monopolies • Panama Canal Tolls • The Tampico Incident • In the Firmament of Memory • Memorial Day Address at Arlington • Closing a Chapter • Annapolis Commencement Address • The Meaning of Liberty • American Neutrality • Appeal for Additional Revenue • The Opinion of the World • The Power of Christian Young Men • Address before the United States Chamber of Commerce • To Naturalized Citizens • Address at Milwaukee • The Submarine Question • American Principles • The Demands of Railway Employees • Speech of Acceptance • Lincoln's Beginnings • The Triumph of Women's Suffrage • The Terms of Peace • Meeting Germany's Challenge • Request for Authority • The Call to War • To the Country • The German Plot • Reply to the Pope • Labor must be Free • The Call for War with Austria-Hungary • Government Administration of Railways • The Conditions of Peace • Force to the Utmost • Presidential Decisions: • The State of War: The President's Proclamation of April 6, 1917 • Formal U.S. Declaration of War with Germany