We're now on the 27th day of my daily presidents threads celebrating the 250th anniversary of the USA.Today we have Woodrow Wilson (12/28/1856 - 2/3/1924), who served as president from 1913 to 1920. Prior to being president, he was the president of Princeton University and the governor of New Jersey. He famously introduced racial segregation into the federal government too. Wilson became seriously incapacitated due to a stroke in late 1919, and spent most of the rest of his presidency having Edith Wilson manage his affairs. Notable actions or events during his presidency include Women's Suffrage and the 19th Amendment, the Federal Reserve Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Federal Trade Commission, the Occupation of Veracruz, the Invasion of the Dominican Republic, the Occupation of Haiti, the Bryan-Chamorro Treaty, the Pancho Villa Expedition, the Colorado Coalfield War, Daylight Savings Time (damn you), the failed nomination of Louis Brandeis, Prohibition and the 18th Amendment, the first Red Scare and the Russian Civil War, the 1919 Anarchist Bombings, the beginning of the Great Migration, the Thrasher Incident, the Zimmerman Telegram, World War I, the Fourteen Points and the Paris Peace Conference, and the League of Nations.What do you think of the racist with glass bones and paper skin?
I like him merely because he makes all the right people seethe copiously.
>>18531628>t.
This thread is gonna be a bad one I can tell because Wilson someone pisses off nearly everyone both on the right and left.
>>185316263/10 president. Began the systematic destruction of this country.
he actively supported the Balfour Declaration. for that alone he deserves Hell.
>when people talk about Wilson https://youtu.be/EddX9hnhDS4
>>18531646I thought it was redditrannies who haved Wilson.
>>18531684Ahmed plz.
>The son of a Presbyterian minister from Virginia, Wilson was born in 1856. His childhood happened during the chaos of the Civil War and its aftermath and he grew up in the "genteel poverty" of the postwar South which gave him a strong sense of duty and asceticism. Wilson attended Princeton University, where he graduated in 1879, and then taught civics and government there, gaining a reputation as a brilliant academic lecturer.>He became president of the university in 1902. Wilson admitted Princeton's first Jewish and Catholic students, but conversely barred blacks from admission, leaving it the only Northern university which was still racially segregated. He eventually came to blows with the dean over his attempt to abolish the snobbish eating clubs used by the students of rich families to eat apart from the less well-heeled ones and over the proposed construction of a dormitory for graduate students. Wilson wanted to locate the dormitory in the center of the campus, where he thought it would elevate the culture of the entire student body, but the dean, Andrew West, preferred to locate it off-campus where graduate students would not be corrupted by the frivolities of the less serious ones. From that point onward, Princeton wasn't big enough for both of them.
>Wilson left Princeton in 1909 and ran for governor of New Jersey, at this time an extremely reactionary state widely used by corporations as a tax shelter, where political corruption was legion. The state Democrat Party agreed to run him as they imagined him as a "typical" point-headed academic with no knowledge of the dirty side of politics who could be easily led around like a cow with a ring in its nose. Wilson won the gubernatorial election and then, to his bosses' shock, routed them as he rammed through a sheaf of enlightened reforms. He was quickly being touted as presidential timber as the 1912 campaign began.
>>18531671>the right and libertarians hate his nanny state philosophy, the Federal Reserve, the 19th Amendment, etc.>/pol/ hates him for endorsing the Balfour Declaration>liberals hate him for being a racist>the left hates him for jailing and deporting communists and anarchists>Euros hate him for not letting them steal clay they thought they were entitled to
>>18531671I just hate him for what he did to Italy.
>>18531699Everyone hates Wilson.
>>1853185670% of Hungary lost forever thanks to this fuck.
Wilson was the pro-segregationist who was also a Semitophile who appointed the first Jewish Supreme Court Justice and supported Zionism, the progressive who jailed communists, the believer in self-determination who intervened in Latin American politics, and inaugurated the idea of America as world police. Anyone of any ideology can have a beef with him in some way.
>>18531856>the right and libertarians hate his nanny state philosophy, the Federal Reserve, the 19th Amendment, etc.The first Espionage Act was passed under Wilson and the precursor of the FBI started which were more strikes against him for libertarians.
>>18532070the ironing is that Wilson was the first Democrat presidential candidate to carry the black vote.
Wilson's reputation at his death in 1924 was pretty much kaput and he was considered a disaster as president. He was rehabilitated after WWII and generally held in high esteem over the Cold War era but his reputation has diminished since the 90s.
>>18532070he also continued TR's policy of gunboat diplomacy in Latin America
>Director Daniel Zanuck produced the epic wartime biographic film "Wilson" in 1944, a hagiography of the 28th president that ran 2-1/2 hours and was the most expensive Hollywood movie ever made to date. FDR and Churchill viewed it at a screening in Montreal. The latter did not care for "Wilson" and left halfway through. When the film reached the climactic scene where Wilson collapses of a stroke, Roosevelt exclaimed "I'm not going to let that happen to me!"[8]
>>18532070he also persecuted conscientious objectors who refused to serve in WW1
>>18531626he's currently in Hell
>The League of Nations treaty contained a set of reservations drafted by Wilson's arch-nemesis Henry Cabot Lodge Sr. The president, despising Lodge, called upon all Senate Democrats to vote against the treaty with the Lodge reservations attached. Nebraska Senator Gilbert Hitchcock visited Wilson at the White House and was told "Let Lodge compromise." "Well, of course, but he must compromise also," said Hitchcock. "Let Lodge hold out the olive branch," Wilson repeated. Hitchcock gave up and left, for "The president was far too sick a man to argue with, especially in a room where his doctors were present.">Wilson's intractability and Americans' strong sense of isolationism all contributed to the failure of the League treaty to pass.
>>18531626Wilson won with 42% of the popular vote, the lowest percentage since Lincoln, without the support of William Jennings Bryan and the Bourbon Democrats he never would have won
>>18531499>>18531626In 1913, Woodrow Wilson...
>>18532626...Takes us into World War I!(List of battles Americans never fought in with the exception of Meuse-Argonne)
>>18532556it was a near-inevitability, after 15 years the Republican Party was burned out at the executive level
>runs on a no war pledge>enters WW1 in three weeks of his second term
>But it was obvious that Wilson wanted to push America towards enlightened reform faster than it was willing to go. An economic recession marred his first year and a half in office, but a flood of war materials orders from Britain and France quickly turned things around and the country was enjoying a boomtime by 1915.>Bills such as the Adamson Eight Hour Act (requiring an eight hour workday for railroad workers), the Workingmen's Compensation Act (granting disability benefits to Federal employees), the La Follette Merchant Seaman's Act (requiring decent pay and living conditions for merchant vessel crews) and the Keating-Owen Act (forbidding child labor in manufactured goods) were driven through Congress by the president. Not all of these bills accomplished their goals--the La Follette Act made the cost of American shipping 2-3x more expensive overnight and unable to compete with much cheaper countries such as Spain or Greece. The Keating-Owen Act was quickly tossed by the Supreme Court in Hammer v. Dagenhart.
>>18533072>the La Follette Act made the cost of American shipping 2-3x more expensive overnight and unable to compete with much cheaper countries such as Spain or Greece.more liberal idealism that didn't work
>>18531626Why were there so many chuds in Academia in the 19th century? Is it because only the affluent could have the luxury of going to a university and everyone else was basically rural?
>>18533513Wilson was the bizarre juxtaposition of a leftist and chud at the same time.
>>18533513When he was president of Princeton he shut down the members only feasting hall, so the wealthy had to live with the pleb students
>>18532070The fact that all sides hate him only shows that he did what was the right thing to do at the right time, without being blindfolded by ideology.
>>18533072>The Keating-Owen Act was quickly tossed by the Supreme Court in Hammer v. Dagenhart.Progressives were so butthurt over this one that Robert La Follette's presidential platform in 1924 called for restrictions on the Supreme Court's ability to overturn acts of Congress.
>>18531626He talked like Jesus and politicked like a European.
>>18533899He was basically the anti Andrew Jackson, he wanted state control and high taxes (they rose to 77% in WW1) the progressives were Darwinists and thought the nation had moved on from 1776
>>18531626Unfairly maligned president who did some good things. We need a president who can make friends with Russia again. Send aid and US military to help Putin in 2026 and I would fully be behind it.
>>18533927>the progressives were Darwinists and thought the nation had moved on from 1776not when it came to race relations though, on that one Wilson was more than happy to not leave the 18th century behind
>>18534977>wanted segregation>sent soldiers to Archangel and Vladivostok to murder commiesTruly he was one of the best.
Wilson ran in 1912 as a moderate in contrast to TR's increasingly hard left stances which included calls for social welfare and increased government management of the economy.
>>18534966I always heard relations with Russia were improving during the Bush Jr years, but maybe that was just bullshit.
