Return of Alsace-Lorraine region and all French territories. Readjust Italian borders Austria-Hungary to be provided an opportunity for self-determination Redraw the borders of the Balkan region creating Roumania, Serbia and Montenegro Creation of a Turkish state with guaranteed free trade in the Dardanelles Creation of an independent Polish state Creation of the League of Nations. He then went on to accuse the president of lying.
But Wilson was angry and the meeting was over. Trotter and his group were shown the door. Wilson had fallen in love with Ellen, an accomplished artist and the daughter of a Presbyterian minister, at church while traveling and working at his Atlanta law practice in The couple had three daughters, and Wilson relied on Ellen a great deal for shared decision-making. The couple moved on from the incident, however, and remained together.
When Ellen died of kidney disease in , following Wilson's first year in the White House, he reportedly walked around in a daze for days, whispering, "My God, what am I to do? A widow herself, Edith met the grieving Wilson several months after the death of his first wife. Admiration quickly deepened into a more profound relationship, and the two married in late December True helpmates, Wilson entrusted Edith with a secret code that accessed highly confidential war documents, and she often sat with him during Oval Office meetings.
Additionally, Edith was the first U. When President Wilson suffered his second serious stroke in October , Edith masked the severity of his illness, making decisions in his stead and becoming, undercover, what some historians term America's first female president.
Wilson made a partial recovery but spent his remaining years seriously disabled. After leaving office in , the Wilsons moved to a home in northwest Washington, D. Wilson died from a stroke and heart complications at the age of 67, on February 3, Wilson was buried in the Washington National Cathedral. Wilson was driven by a sense of mission and an ideal his father had instilled in him to leave the world a better place than you found it. Wilson left a legacy of peace, social and financial reform, and statesmanship with integrity, which lives on at the many schools and programs named after him, most notably the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and his old alma mater, Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives. His story was told in the book and film 'Charlie Wilson's War. Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal led the nation through the Great Depression.
Elected to four terms, his presidency helped ensure victory in World War II. Jackie Wilson was a dynamic and powerful soul performer during the s and '60s who successfully crossed over from rhythm and blues to pop music.
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Blair A. Ruble, Blair A. Tony Smith Cornelia M. Smith, Tony. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Morris, James M. Legacies of Woodrow Wilson. Hoover, Herbert. The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson. With a new introduction by Senator Mark Hatfield. This is not a day of triumph: It is a day of dedication. Here, muster, not the forces of party, but the forces of humanity. Men's hearts wait upon us, men's lives hang in the balance; men's hopes call upon us to say what we will do.
Who shall live up to the great trust? Who dares fail to try? It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war The arrangements of justice do not stand of themselves, my fellow citizens There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to, and that is the truth of justice and of liberty and of peace. We have accepted that truth, and we are going to be led by it, and it is going to lead us, and through us, the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before.
The man who has the time, the discrimination, and the sagacity to collect and comprehend the principal facts and the man who must act upon them must draw near to one another and feel they are engaged in a common enterprise. Civilization The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
Congress Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee rooms is Congress at work. Duty We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction.
There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves. Government Government should not be made an end in itself; it is a means only -- a means to be freely adapted to advance the best interests of the social organism.
The state exists for the sake of society, not society for the sake of the state. Idealism Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America, my fellow citizens -- I do not say it in disparagement of any other great people -- America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Liberty The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Peace The program of the world's peace, therefore, is our program; and that program, the only possible program, as we see it, is this: 1. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view. Power When I resist, therefore, when I as a Democrat resist the concentration of power, I am resisting the processes of death, because the concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human initiative, and, therefore of human energy.
Public Service There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of a people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity. Responsibility of People In the last analysis, my fellow countrymen, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government. World War I The world must be made safe for democracy. It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance.
But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts, for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
To such a task we dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other.
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