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Hace 5 días · Thomas R. Marshall was the 28th vice president of the United States (1913–21) in the Democratic administration of President Woodrow Wilson. He was the first vice president in almost a century to serve two terms in office.
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Hace 4 días · Atlantic Staff Writer David Frum - speaking from Woodrow Wilson's Washington, D.C., home - reconsidered the 28th president's legacy, including his efforts to persuade the U.S. to join the League of Nations and the segregated federal government of his time.
Hace 1 día · Sleeping Beauty, a nickname his wife Helen Herron Taft called him because he was always falling asleep; Woodrow Wilson. Coiner of Weasel Words, given by former president Theodore Roosevelt in a speech; The Phrasemaker: as an acclaimed historian, Wilson had no need of speech-writers to supply his oratorical eloquence.
Hace 4 días · Fourteen Points, declaration by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson during World War I outlining his proposals for a postwar peace settlement. On January 8, 1918, Wilson, in his address to a joint session of Congress, formulated under 14 separate heads his ideas of the essential nature of a post-World War I settlement.
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- The Fourteen Points were a proposal made by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in a speech before Congress on January 8, 1918, outlining his vision for...
- While half of the Fourteen Points addressed specific territorial issues between the combatant countries, the remainder were a vision for peace. The...
- In October 1918 Germany requested an armistice based on the Fourteen Points. Though the Armistice and Treaty of Versailles did not adhere to the id...
- In negotiating the Treaty of Versailles, the representatives of Britain, France, and Italy wanted to strengthen their own positions and felt it nec...
Hace 4 días · Woodrow Wilson's Foreign Policy Wilson looms over the history of American foreign policy like basically no other president. Washington and Jefferson have a strong claim because of the default setting they bequeathed, but Wilson is the one who, for better and for worse, really revolutionized not just America's role with the world but also the way of thinking about international relations.
Hace 1 día · The magnificent mansion that is now the Stanley House was built in 1895 by lumber executive W.P. Stevens as the summer residence of the favorite uncle and aunt of President Woodrow Wilson, Dr. James Woodrow and his wife, Felixina Baker.
Hace 5 días · Mamie Geneva Doud married future president Dwight Eisenhower on July 1, 1916, when she was just 19 years old. She had just graduated from the finishing school Miss Wolcott's. Dwight was 25 and an ...
