"Woodrow Wilson: The Tampico Affair"
Speech
By: Woodrow Wilson
Date: April 20, 1914
Source: Wilson, Woodrow. "Woodrow Wilson: The Tampico Affair." Congressional Record. 63rd Cong., 2d sess., 1914. Vol. 51, pt. 4. Available online at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/tampico.htm; website home page: http://www.mtholyoke.edu (accessed January 19, 2003).
About the Author: Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) was the twenty-eighth president of the United States (served 1913–1921). In 1910, he left his position as president of Princeton University to become the governor of New Jersey. In 1913, he became the first Democrat to occupy the White House since 1888. He called for limits on corporate campaign contributions, tariff reductions, a federal income tax, and the formation of the League of Nations.
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