Edith Wilson: the Seat of Untold Power with Rebecca Boggs Roberts

The Preamble

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Historian Rebecca Boggs Roberts joins Sharon on Here’s Where It Gets Interesting to talk about her upcoming book, Untold Power. Long time listeners are no strangers to the lives of First Ladies, and today we talk about Edith Wilson, who was so much more than just her husband’s wife. When she met Woodrow Wilson, she was an independent, fashionable small business owner, and she had no plans to stand in the shadows.

Thank you to our guest, Rebecca Boggs Roberts.

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0:00.0	The Friends, welcome, so glad you're here with me today.
0:08.0	Y'all, here is a first lady you need to know more about because she was basically running
0:16.3	the country after her husband was completely incapacitated by stroke.
0:21.0	Yes, I'm talking about Edith Wilson.
0:24.3	And we are chatting today with author Rebecca Boggs Roberts who has a new biography out called
0:31.3	Untold Power.
0:34.1	Comprehensive biography of Edith Wilson and my goodness, you are going to find out some
0:39.0	stuff in this conversation that I promised you to know.
0:42.2	So let's dive in.
0:45.3	I'm Sharon McMahon and here's where it gets interesting.
0:51.0	I am very excited to be chatting today because Edith Wilson is the seat of Untold Power.
1:00.8	She absolutely is.
1:01.8	I mean, I think that if anyone knows anything about her at all, it's that for a few months
1:06.9	in 1919 and 1920, she acted as the executive while what your Wilson was very sick.
1:12.8	But her whole story, she lived to be 89.
1:16.2	And so that chapter is just a thin slice.
1:18.5	You don't understand her at all if that's the only part you're looking at.
1:21.5	And frankly, a lot of Americans don't even know that a lot of people are going to be listed
1:25.6	this and be like, what?
1:27.1	What?
1:28.1	Right.
1:29.1	Well, in part because she was really good at keeping it secret.
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