If in these critical days it is your wish to sustain me with undivided minds, I beg that you will say so in a way which it will not be possible to misunderstand either here at home or among our associates on the other side of the sea.
Woodrow Wilson: “If in these critical days it is your wish to sustain me with undivided minds, I beg that you will say so in a way which…”
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Statement Appealing to the Nation for Support in the 1918 Congressional Election
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