If you have approved of my leadership and wish me to continue to be your unembarrassed spokesman in affairs at home and abroad, I earnestly beg that you will express yourself unmistakably to that effect by returning a Democratic majority to both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Woodrow Wilson: “If you have approved of my leadership and wish me to continue to be your unembarrassed spokesman in affairs at home and…”
On the recordOctober 24, 1918
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Statement Appealing to the Nation for Support in the 1918 Congressional Election
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