Woodrow Wilson to Harry Augustus Garfield

If I did not heed the advice of your letter of March twenty-eighth, you may be sure it was only because I could not. I hope with all my heart that my address to the Congress has convinced you that I had good reasons and that the course I pursued was not pursued either in haste or in vexation. I should not like to feel that I was going against the judgment of a man whose judgment I so highly and sincerely value.
In haste, with warmest regard,
Faithfully yours,

Pres. Harry A. Garfield,
Williamstown, Massachusetts.