But with Edith Wilson, were people constantly being corrected to call her Dr. Wilson?
Jonah Goldberg (who gets quoted a few times in the article) has a Podcast called “The Remnant”. Whenever WW gets mentioned, they play the Orc music from the Lord of the Rings movies.
I wish the defendants remaining in the Michael Mann lawsuit would refrain from linking to the opinion outlets that have cravenly retired from the “Free Speech” battlefield…
They didn’t retire, they changed sides.
We should give NRO a chance to come back but also always be skeptical of those weasels and never let them forget their backstabbing and working for the other team almost destroyed the country.
The conservatives have Wilson and now the progressives have Trump.
–Dylan Matthews of Vox concluded that “Woodrow Wilson was extremely racist — even by the standards of his time”–
He is very similar to Joe Biden.
When I read about the 1918 flu pandemic a decade or so back, Wilson figured in a story about the Treaty of Versailles. Of the big leaders (others being France, UK, and Italy), he was the only one that opposed most of the punitive war reparations for Germany, Austria, and other losers of that war. However, rather than have his people handle most of the negotiations, Wilson did so in person and stayed six months (it appears that he arrived at the start of the conference in January 1919 and left July 1919).
While it’s nice that Wilson opposed the abusive provisions of this treaty, there was a notable failing here. He wouldn’t let anyone else undertake negotiations in his stead. According to the story I read, the other major leaders took turns handling him – wearing him down slowly. Then at the beginning of April, Wilson caught the flu (and even that late in the pandemic, it was still no joke) and ran out of energy to continue.
Because for the US side these negotiations relied solely on Wilson’s work and presence, he knuckled under to everything at that point, giving the other leaders just about everything they wanted. I gather the League of Nations was one of the few sops given to him, and of course, the US Senate torpedoed that.
But with Edith Wilson, were people constantly being corrected to call her Dr. Wilson?
Jonah Goldberg (who gets quoted a few times in the article) has a Podcast called “The Remnant”. Whenever WW gets mentioned, they play the Orc music from the Lord of the Rings movies.
I wish the defendants remaining in the Michael Mann lawsuit would refrain from linking to the opinion outlets that have cravenly retired from the “Free Speech” battlefield…
They didn’t retire, they changed sides.
We should give NRO a chance to come back but also always be skeptical of those weasels and never let them forget their backstabbing and working for the other team almost destroyed the country.
The conservatives have Wilson and now the progressives have Trump.
–Dylan Matthews of Vox concluded that “Woodrow Wilson was extremely racist — even by the standards of his time”–
He is very similar to Joe Biden.
When I read about the 1918 flu pandemic a decade or so back, Wilson figured in a story about the Treaty of Versailles. Of the big leaders (others being France, UK, and Italy), he was the only one that opposed most of the punitive war reparations for Germany, Austria, and other losers of that war. However, rather than have his people handle most of the negotiations, Wilson did so in person and stayed six months (it appears that he arrived at the start of the conference in January 1919 and left July 1919).
While it’s nice that Wilson opposed the abusive provisions of this treaty, there was a notable failing here. He wouldn’t let anyone else undertake negotiations in his stead. According to the story I read, the other major leaders took turns handling him – wearing him down slowly. Then at the beginning of April, Wilson caught the flu (and even that late in the pandemic, it was still no joke) and ran out of energy to continue.
Because for the US side these negotiations relied solely on Wilson’s work and presence, he knuckled under to everything at that point, giving the other leaders just about everything they wanted. I gather the League of Nations was one of the few sops given to him, and of course, the US Senate torpedoed that.