Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift, but it is of little worth in politics.

Politics is a war of causes, a joust of principles.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

23-year-old Woodrow Wilson in 1879 in a speech he gave while studying at the Law School of the University of Virginia.

Wilson had no friends, only slaves and enemies.

Thomas Gore, Democratic Senator from Oklahoma in the early 20th century,

and the maternal grandfather of Gore Vidal,

after whom Vidal was named.

Wilson's principles have remained

the bedrock of American foreign policy thinking.

Henry Kissinger. Hey, everybody, CJ here, your one-man revolution, guerrilla scholar warrior and renaissance man for this new and ever-darkening dark age in which we find ourselves currently.

Back with another dose of dangerous history, and yes, you have read correctly after much

anticipation, and on my part much research and reading and thinking and planning and

composing, which is still underway, even as I begin this endeavor.

Yes, my friends, here we go.

This is the beginning of my, hopefully, epic, D.H.P. Villains, multi-part hit piece

against the man that I consider the worst president, so far anyway, in American history,

and that, of course, is Woodrow Wilson.

Let me just say at the outset, I have no idea at the moment how many episodes this will end up being, or how long it will take me from the first episode to the last, and I make no predictions.

It'll definitely be non-consecutive with episodes on other topics interspersed in between, because, like I said,

I am still researching aspects of Wilson's presidency as I'm starting to put out this first

episode in the series. I think it'll probably be less episodes and less total time than the Civil

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