1916, Hughes vs. Wilson: He Kept Us Out of War!

American Elections: Wicked Game

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🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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As war brews overseas in Europe, Democratic President Woodrow Wilson strives to keep America out of the war and to keep his prospects for a second term alive. To keep the White House, Wilson goes toe to toe with Republican Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes in a contest that is defined by domestic turmoil, international strife and personal animus.

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0:00.0	It's November 12, 1909 at Holloway Women's Prison in London, England.
0:18.3	A young American woman sits alone on the cold, damp floor of her prison cell.
0:23.2	She's wrapped in a thin white sheet to stave off the cold.
0:26.7	Days ago, this woman and her suffragette comrades snuck into a banquet filled with political
0:31.4	power players like Parliament Member Winston Churchill to protest for women's voting rights in Great Britain.
0:37.4	Both women were promptly arrested, tried, and sentenced to 30 days in prison.
0:42.1	And ever since she arrived at Holloway 4 days ago, American suffragist Alice Paul has been
0:47.6	a thorn in the side of the prison staff.
0:50.3	Alice looks up, a large female warden and a prison doctor approach her cell.
0:55.2	Is this the one?
0:56.4	Yes, Doctor.
0:58.0	The doctor sizes up Paul for a moment.
1:00.3	What did you do Miss Paul? Why are you here?
1:03.6	But Paul doesn't respond. She stares at the wall of her cell defiantly.
1:07.9	The warden answers for her.
1:09.5	She made a scene at the Lord Mayor's banquet through rocks, broke windows, harassed MPs.
1:15.4	The doctor is curious.
1:16.9	What did you hope to accomplish?
1:19.4	Paul could defend herself. She could point out that newspaper accounts of her protests like the warden's
1:24.4	version of the story are overblown. She could explain that she didn't break any windows.
1:29.4	Her British comrades suffragette Amelia Brown broke the window.
1:32.8	But even that was an accident. All she did was throw a shoe.
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