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Woodrow Wilson: I am sorry that upon the eve of a campaign we should be obliged to discuss these things, for fear they might run over…

On the recordJanuary 28, 1916
I am sorry that upon the eve of a campaign we should be obliged to discuss these things, for fear they might run over into the campaign and seem to constitute a part of it.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address At the Cleveland Armory in Cleveland, Ohio

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