Carolina QuotesI have read it with the deepest appreciation of Mr. Herron's singular insight into all the elements of a complicated situation and into my own motives and purposes.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
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Letter to Mitchell Kennerley about the book Woodrow Wilson and the World's Peace, October 1, 1917
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