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Woodrow Wilson: “I came into the Middle West to find something, and I found it.”

On the recordFebruary 2, 1916
I came into the Middle West to find something, and I found it.
Said by
Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Address at the St. Louis Coliseum in St. Louis, Missouri

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