Editing World War I (section)

== Speech Relevance ==
Reagan makes two references to World War I.  The first (chronologically) is in his 1957 [[Eureka College Commencement]] speech:
<BLOCKQUOTE>''Almost a century and a half after that day in Philadelphia, this nation entered a great world conflict in Europe. Volumes of cynical words have been written about that war and our part in it. Our motives have been questioned and there has been talk of ulterior motives in high places, of world markets and balance of power. But all the words of all the cynics cannot erase the fact that millions of Americans sacrificed, fought and many died in the sincere and selfless belief that they were making the world safe for democracy and advancing the cause of freedom for all men.''</BLOCKQUOTE>
The second is in '[[Encroaching Control]]':
<BLOCKQUOTE>''The committee further said they found little evidence that any agency, bureau or department created in answer to an emergency ever went out of existence even after the emergency had disappeared. Well, an example of this could be the [[Government Corporations|Spruce Products Corporation]] a government corporation which Congress ordered liquidated in 1920. 30 years later, it was still in existence. This was the corporation founded in World War I to secure spruce wood for airplane fuselages.''</BLOCKQUOTE>