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Woodrow Wilson: “I am for the time being the spokesman of such people, gentlemen.”

On the recordJune 29, 1916
I am for the time being the spokesman of such people, gentlemen.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address Before the Press Club in New York City

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