This memorial links major twentieth-century U.S. wars with presidential declarations of purpose. For World War I, President Woodrow Wilson on April 2, 1917, called for vindicating peace and justice against selfish and autocratic power, creating a concert among free and self-governed peoples, making the world safe for democracy, and planting peace on political liberty. For World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt on December 9, 1941, said free peoples were fighting to maintain the right to live in freedom without fear or assault, not for conquest but for a world made safe. For the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman on June 27, 1950, said the attack upon Korea showed Communism had moved from subversion to armed invasion, defied the United Nations Security Council, and threatened international peace, and he affirmed that the United States would uphold the rule of law. For the Vietnam War, President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 29, 1965, said the United States was in Vietnam to fulfill a sacred pledge, not abandon South Vietnam, and not leave those who trusted it to terror and repression. For the Persian Gulf War, President George Bush on January 15, 1991, said a coalition of twenty-eight nations stood against Iraq, offering an opportunity to establish a new world order governed by law and to restore Kuwait's legitimate government and freedom.