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Woodrow Wilson: “I have always taken this attitude toward facts, that I never let them get me if I see them coming first.”

On the recordSeptember 14, 1919
I have always taken this attitude toward facts, that I never let them get me if I see them coming first.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at a Luncheon at the Hotel Portland in Portland, Oregon

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