#1544 Ten Things about Woodrow Wilson
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🗓️ 24 April 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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This week, Clay Jenkinson's conversation with Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky about the 28th President of the United States Woodrow Wilson. Best known for his Fourteen Points and the League of Nations, Wilson was one of the most pronounced idealists among American presidents. He said he wanted to make the world safe for democracy. Meanwhile, at home, he supported some of the most repressive censorship and anti-dissident programs in the history of America. He re-segregated the U.S. government bureaucracy and came late to women's suffrage. Before the end of his second term, Wilson had a massive stroke. His second wife Edith took over and in some respects became the first female chief executive in American history.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to this special edition of the Thomas Jefferson Hour. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm Clay Jenkinson. |
| 0:08.9 | David Swanson is still on break. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm sitting today across the country, that is, with my dear friend, Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky, |
| 0:15.8 | our ten things series. |
| 0:17.1 | And today, it's ten things about the 28th president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson. |
| 0:22.8 | Welcome, Lindsay. |
| 0:23.8 | Well, thank you. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm looking forward to this conversation. |
| 0:26.6 | I suspect we will have lots to say. |
| 0:29.3 | Lots to say, and we're moving a little bit beyond the founding generation here. |
| 0:33.6 | Wilson was president from 1912 to 1920, a big, big question. |
| 0:37.9 | You know, most of us grew up through our middle school and high school learning that Wilson |
| 0:41.8 | was the 14 points and the failure of the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations and so on. |
| 0:47.0 | It's not the most important thing we need to know about Woodrow Wilson. |
| 0:50.2 | You're starting with all guns of blazing. |
| 0:52.6 | I think the ideas contained in the 14 points are certainly Wilson's biggest impact. |
| 0:59.4 | Now, I sometimes question that, though, because he didn't actually succeed in getting them past |
| 1:04.3 | and to succeed in getting the nation to adhere to them. |
| 1:07.0 | And it took Franklin Roosevelt and the legacy of Franklin Roosevelt to actually make that happen. |
| 1:12.8 | But certainly, I think the concepts, the ideas, the ideology that he presented are perhaps |
| 1:18.2 | his most lingering legacy. |
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