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Woodrow Wilson: I therefore come to ask your approval that I should use the armed forces of the United States in such ways and to such…

On the recordApril 19, 1914
I therefore come to ask your approval that I should use the armed forces of the United States in such ways and to such an extent as may be necessary to obtain from General Huerta and his adherents the fullest recognition of the rights and dignity of the United States, even amidst the distressing conditions now unhappily obtaining in Mexico.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address to a Joint Session of Congress on the Tampico Incident

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