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"The ‘Open Road.’"

This 1916 cartoon celebrating the insurgent Progressive Party drew its title from a quote by Woodrow Wilson, stating that Americans who were discontented with traditional party politics proposed to “find an open road for themselves.”

Source: Robert Carter, American Review of Reviews (1912)—Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

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