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It makes the leaders of our politics, many of them, mere names to our consciousness instead of real persons whom we have seen and heard, and whom we know.
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gutenberg.orgWoodrow Wilson: “It makes the leaders of our politics, many of them, mere names to our consciousness instead of real persons whom we have…”
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Wilson discusses how distance from political leaders reduces their presence in the public consciousness.
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