Woodrow
Americannoun
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In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson suffered a major stroke that left him mostly incapacitated for the final stretch of his presidency, effectively leaving his wife to make decisions for over a year.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
The old guard held that the universe was eternal and unchanging, but in 1965 Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson discovered the faint background radiation left over from the cosmos’ earliest moments.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
His grandfather John W. Foster served as secretary of state under Benjamin Harrison in the 1890s, and his uncle, Robert Lansing, held the same position under Woodrow Wilson.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
After World War I, Woodrow Wilson barnstormed the country to gin up support for a treaty that would have seen the U.S. join the League of Nations.
From Slate • Mar. 10, 2026
Woodrow Wilson had been reelected to a second term as president in 1916 with the campaign slogan “He kept us out of war.”
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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