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Apropos of nothing, an earlier Demwit president who claimed to be a peacenik but was trying to maneuver the US into war was Woodrow Wilson. Elected by less than a majority (ahem) in 1912, he was reelected in 1916 behind the slogan, “He kept us out of war”.
Wilson took home the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919, the year after the war.
During his term (although it’s difficult to find this information on the web pages which have info on this) the Socialist Eugene V. Debs who had given a blistering speech against US involvement in WWI (in June 1918, almost five months before Armistice Day) was arrested, tried, convicted, and imprisoned for sedition, Wilson called him a traitor. Republican President Warren G. Harding pardoned Debs in 1921.
Debs’ earlier prison term was carried out during the Demwit Grover Cleveland’s administration.
My mind runs on sidetracks.
Anyway, the Lusitania was sunk in 1915. The United States did NOT enter the war until 1917, and NOT because of the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915.
Thanks jhpigott.