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A telegram, and a decision

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A century ago today, on February 24, 1917, United States ambassador to the United Kingdom, Walter Hines Page, was shown the intercepted Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany offered to give the American Southwest back to Mexico if Mexico were to declare war on the United States.

On February 24, 1803, the Supreme Court, in Marbury v. Madison, established the principle of judicial review.

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