I'm John Batchew with Troy Senate, a man of iron, the turbulent life and improbable presidency

of Grover Cleveland.

He leaves office in the election of 1896, a man whom Cleveland celebrates, McKinley,

becomes president of the United States.

Teddy Roosevelt is in the future now.

Teddy Roosevelt doesn't become vice president until the second term for McKinley.

Cleveland and Francis, with their two children, I believe, at this point, maybe more, move, leave Washington, and they

move to Princeton, New Jersey. And the president becomes involved with Princeton University at the

time that a young professor is startling everybody with his genius and drive named Mojo Wilson. What do we know

about the relationship between Wilson, the future president, and Grover Cleveland, the former

president? They have a relationship that I think we can describe as friendly without necessarily

being friends. Wilson, in his capacity as a scholar,

had actually been quite positive on Cleveland,

probably the best contemporary record of the Cleveland presidency

and contemporary analysis was written by Woodrow Wilson in the Atlantic.

Wilson praises Cleveland in his post-presidency

as roughly the kind of president

the founders probably had in mind. And what he meant by that is independent, seeing himself as an

independent power center from the Congress and a check on Congress. But there is a bit of

conflict in the future here, because Wilson will become the president of Princeton. Cleveland is

eventually on the board.

And the event that actually precipitates Wilson leaving academia and going into politics is what seems to us a very small board dispute over the proper location of the graduate campus than to be

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