re: #70 HappyWarrior

It went to the old you can’t please everyone at the same time. Plus, Wilson really pissed off a lot of Irish people and Irish-Americans because of his own innate Anglophile attitudes which resulted in him having a dismissive attitude towards the Irish independence movement- refused to even meet with them or consider their movement. I have a lot of mixed feelings on old WW though. I read a good biography of him though my final year in college. My jury is still out on him. I don’t hate him like Glenn Beck obviously but I don’t think I’d call myself an admirer eitehr.

One thing about Wilson that shocked me when I first learned about it was that apparently once the US was dragged into WWI, the Wilson administration had no use at all for dissent, freedom of expression etc., and was thoroughly enthusiastic about a straight-up domestic propaganda campaign to support the war effort.