As 28th President Woodrow Wilson

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Change. Change helps people grow. Change brings people down. Change is the driving force behind humanity, whether the change is innovative or destructive. You and I, him and her, have all experienced change within ourselves, as well as change among others. As 28th President Woodrow Wilson was running for his second term, the Democratic Party’s slogan was “He kept us out of war.” A month after he won the presidential race against Charles Hughes, a Congress encouraged by Wilson voted to engage in war against Germany. In this decision, Wilson demonstrates the necessity of change within a leader when they are preserving ideas and values that are of more importance than what is being change, in addition to when they must gather and maintain support.