Example sentences for: wilson

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  • His vituperation for Woodrow Wilson extends beyond the familiar argument that Wilson's arrogance sabotaged his efforts to win Senate approval for joining the League of Nations; Buchanan also faults Wilson for impugning the patriotism of so-called "hyphenates"--immigrants who wanted American policy to favor their native lands.

  • Though Wilson was unmarried, dating another woman so soon after his wife's death seemed vaguely scandalous in 1915, especially because, as Starling discreetly put it, Wilson was afraid "another woman--a Mrs. Peck, whom the President had known years before--would make trouble if an engagement were announced."

  • Edmund Starling, who guarded Wilson, wrote in his memoir: "Our boss was in love.

  • Less well known, if less salacious, is the fact that in 1915, the Presbyterian moralist Woodrow Wilson, then a recent widower, used agents to run interference for him in his amorous pursuits.

  • Was Wilson a failure, just because Congress rejected the Versailles treaty?


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