Tag Archives: The League of NAtions

Woodrow Wilson 1919: Savior of Europe

When the Great War ended in 1918, US President Wilson was a hero to the Allies. WW: Writer of Rules and Righter of Wrongs Many historians over the past century have alluded to Woodrow Wilson’s messianic streak. He was a … Continue reading

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The Long Retirement of The Widow Wilson

  Edith Wilson (the Second Mrs. WW) was one of our longest lived FLOTUSES. The Second Mrs. Woodrow Edith Bolling Galt was a comfortably fixed 42-year-old widow when she met sitting President Woodrow Wilson, a recent widower fifteen years her … Continue reading

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FDR Glimpses the Future: 1920

In 1920, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was thirty-eight years old, and the Democratic party’s candidate for Vice President. FDR: A Moderate Career Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) was not a spectacular rise to success by any means. He had a rather spoiled … Continue reading

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