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    Woodrow Wilson, during a private screening of "A Birth of A Nation", is reported to have said “It’s like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all terribly true.” Is there any evidence that he actually said this?
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    1. chrisaldrich 03 Mar 2026
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      Woodrow Wilson Thomas Dixon, Jr. Johns Hopkins alumni The Clansman D. W. Griffith Birth of a Nation history read
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