A portrait of Wilson in my study reminds me that he, like Biden, tried to appeal directly the Germans in his war message. Biden today says his comment about Putin remaining in power was in part directed to the Russian people. Thread 1 Wilson said in his April 1917 war message to Congress: “We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling toward them but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their government acted in entering this war. It was not with their previous 2

March 21, 1973. Next year will be the 50th anniversary of one of the most important conferences in the Oval Office between a president and White House Counsel. 1/8 On that day, 34-year-old John W. Dean told Richard Nixon that there was a "cancer growing on his presidency." 2/8