Will Irwin had one of the great ideas of the war when he suggested that the 4th of July, 1918, should be 'turned over' to Americans of foreign birth & descent for such celebrations as might most fittingly manifest their loyalty to the US & their devotion to free institutions
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--from George Creel's 1920 book "How We Advertised America." Creel was head of Woodrow Wilson's Committee on Public Information. The idea that contemporary progressivism is some sort of historic or cultural aberration is one of the biggest right-wing myths today.
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Holy crap not only did they do it but they capped it off with a pilgrimage to Mount Vernon!
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