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His speech’s most famous phrase would resound ... A century later, we’re still living in Woodrow Wilson’s world.
The four years which have elapsed since last I stood in this place have been crowded with counsel and action of the most vital interest and consequence. Perhaps no equal period in our history has ...
This week is the 100th anniversary of President Woodrow Wilson’s speech to Congress seeking a declaration of war against Germany. Many people celebrate this centenary of America’s emergence as ...
Americans are raised to revere idealism, the civic religion of contemporary democracy. If patriotism is the last refuge of a ...
Updated April 24, 2015, 10:29 AM At first blush, conservative attacks on Woodrow Wilson seem ... little resistance when they blast Wilson for infringing free speech, escalating police surveillance ...
The 1918 speech was a blueprint for world peace ... The creation of the United Nations was also an extension of Wilson’s League of Nations dream. In 1919 Woodrow Wilson was awarded the Nobel Peace ...
Woodrow Wilson spoke those famous words to a friend ... Wilson argued this case most explicitly in a January 1918 address to Congress. The speech is famous for the 14 points he enumerated as ...
At 8:28 p.m. on November 10, 1923, President Woodrow Wilson stood ... and Providence carried the speech, which reached across most of the nation," Berg writes in "Wilson." "Some towns installed ...
Before Donald Trump, the last president to put tariffs at the top of his post-inauguration to-do list was Woodrow Wilson ... tariffs in his writings and speeches. He began his political career ...
President Roosevelt delivers his ‘Day of Infamy’ speech to Congress on December 8, 1941. Via Wikimedia Commons Mr. Beito notes Roosevelt’s “unquestioning support for Woodrow Wilson’s crackdown on free ...