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Woodrow Wilson: I need not tell you, my fellow countrymen, that I am asking your support not for my own sake or for the sake of a…

On the recordOctober 24, 1918
I need not tell you, my fellow countrymen, that I am asking your support not for my own sake or for the sake of a political party, but for the sake of the nation itself, in order that its inward unity of purpose may be evident to all the world.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Statement Appealing to the Nation for Support in the 1918 Congressional Election

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