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Woodrow Wilson: I have not come here to make a speech in the ordinary sense of that term.

On the recordSeptember 3, 1919
I have not come here to make a speech in the ordinary sense of that term.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Coliseum at the State Fair Grounds in Indianapolis, Indiana

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