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from being supplied by American supplies.
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Woodrow Wilson, Princeton, who won the election,
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kept us out of war.
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He takes the country into war,
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and eventually he can't get the Treaty
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of Versailles passed even by the American isolationist senate.
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So, the Americans go to war in 1917.
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I took Yale alumni,
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besides taking them to the épernay to drink champagne,
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a lot of them wanted to go to this a long time ago,
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to Chateau Thierry,
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which is the first place that American soldiers fought in 1917.