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Woodrow Wilson: “I know how I would be inclined to sweep aside the minor impediments of the ordinary transactions of government.”

On the recordFebruary 2, 1916
I know how I would be inclined to sweep aside the minor impediments of the ordinary transactions of government.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

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

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