{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2006-12-08-pt1-PgE2141-2", "2006-12-08", 109, 2, null, null, "HONORING PRESIDENT WILSON ON THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH", "HOUSE", "EXTENSIONS", "HONORING", "E2141", "E2141", "[{\"name\": \"Rush Holt\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "152 Cong. Rec. E2141", "Congressional Record, Volume 152 Issue 135 (Friday, December 8, 2006)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 135 (Friday, December 8, 2006)]\n[Extensions of Remarks]\n[Page E2141]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n    HONORING PRESIDENT WILSON ON THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH\n\n                                 ______\n\n                           HON. RUSH D. HOLT\n\n                             of new jersey\n\n                    in the house of representatives\n\n                      Wednesday, December 6, 2006\n\n  Mr. HOLT. Mr. Speaker, December 28 will mark the 150 anniversary of\nthe birth of our 28th president, Woodrow Wilson. Throughout 2006, a\nnumber of organizations--including the Woodrow Wilson House, the\nBoyhood Home of President Woodrow Wilson, the Woodrow Wilson Family\nHome, Princeton University, and the Woodrow Wilson Presidential\nLibrary--have held multiple public events to commemorate the life and\nwork of President Wilson. Today, along with my colleague, Mr.\nGoodlatte, I'm pleased to offer a resolution both recognizing the 150th\nanniversary of President Wilson's birth and the contributions of the\nmany organizations that have made this sesquicentennial successful. It\nalso affords us a moment to reflect on how important Woodrow Wilson's\nlegacy is for the United States.\n  President Wilson lived to see three major wars in his lifetime, each\nof which reshaped America's role in the world: the Civil War, the\nSpanish-American War, and World War I. In the wake of the First World\nWar, President Wilson had the vision to understand that if America was\ngoing to prosper in the 20th century, it needed to be a part of the\nworld, not separated from it. That vision was encapsulated in the last\nof his famous ``14 points'' in his January 8, 1918 address to a joint\nsession of Congress:\n\n       XIV. A general association of nations must be formed under\n     specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual\n     guarantees of political independence and territorial\n     integrity to great and small states alike.\n\n  Wilson sought to create a just peace for the defeated Triple Alliance\npowers and a secure world for all nations. He understood both the value\nand need for collective security, and above all the moral imperative\nunderlying it, as he revealed in his 1918 State of the Union speech:\n\n       We have spoken now, surely, in terms too concrete to admit\n     of any further doubt or question. An evident principle runs\n     through the whole program I have outlined. It is the\n     principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and\n     their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with\n     one another, whether they be strong or weak. Unless this\n     principle [can] be made its foundation, no part of the\n     structure of international justice can stand.\n\n  Wilson's vision for America's role abroad--U.S. participation and\nleadership in the League of Nations--was ultimately undone by his lack\nof vision in dealing with a Senate that his party no longer controlled\nand by some flaws in the design of the League. Then-Senate Majority\nLeader Henry Cabot Lodge was skeptical of the value of the League and\nwary of the risks of committing America to a permanent, high-profile\nrole in international affairs. The personal animosity between the two\nmen undoubtedly contributed to Lodge's opposition to ratification of\nthe League treaty. The intransigence of both men doomed the League\ntreaty's chances in the Senate.\n\n  Today, there is little debate among historians about the\nconsequences. Had Wilson and Lodge been able to set aside their\ndifferences and ensure Senate passage of the treaty, America's\nmembership in the League might well have moved the body to take far\nmore decisive action against the fascist dictatorships that emerged in\nGermany, Italy, and Japan in the 1920s and 1930s, perhaps preventing\nthe Second World War. Other presidents since have relearned the lesson\nthat unless the Congress--the representatives of the people--are true\npartners in America's foreign policy initiatives, the results are\nusually tragic. Such was the case in Vietnam, and it is the case in\nIraq today.\n  History ultimately validated Wilson's vision for America's role in\nthe world, and his dream of an international body designed to mediate\nconflicts between nations did become a reality in the form of the\nUnited Nations. Wilson was an innovator in international affairs, and\nwe need to recapture his spirit of innovation and inclusiveness if we\nare to meet both the threats and the opportunities that lie before us.\nI want to once again thank all of the fine organizations involved with\nthe Wilson sesquicentennial celebrations for reminding us all what\nPresident Wilson has bequeathed to our Nation and the world.\n\n                          ____________________"]], "columns": ["granule_id", "date", "congress", "session", "volume", "issue", "title", "chamber", "granule_class", "sub_granule_class", "page_start", "page_end", "speakers", "bills", "citation", "full_text"], "primary_keys": ["granule_id"], "primary_key_values": ["CREC-2006-12-08-pt1-PgE2141-2"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.540391007438302, "source": "Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API", "source_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/api/v1", "license": "Public Domain (U.S. Government data)", "license_url": "https://www.regulations.gov/faq"}