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Woodrow Wilson: The suspicion is beginning to dawn in many quarters that the average man knows the business necessities of the country…

On the recordJuly 9, 1916
The suspicion is beginning to dawn in many quarters that the average man knows the business necessities of the country just as well as the extraordinary man does.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at a Luncheon at the Detroit Athletic Club

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