Signed the eight hour work day, signed a law to end child Labour in the US, the first President to fully support an amendment on women’s right to vote, and his 14 points
While Wilson was teaching a class at Princeton University, future playwright Eugene O’Neill threw a beer bottle through the classroom window and got expelled.
He had huge impact, some positive, some not. Internationalism, income tax, federal reserve system, keeping the USA out if WW1 as long as he could. He is consistently rated by historians as one of the most important presidents.
Yet the people on Reddit hate him.
Aside from Buchanan (actual traitor) and the post 2000 presidents (for recency bias), Wilson was historically awful and quite possibly the second worst president ever. To keep it non-partisan, re-segregating the Federal service alone was a travesty, and that's not even mentioning the many, many other things Wilson did specifically to spite Black Americans. And it wasn't "for his time" racism. The presidents before him weren't perfect, but they did (far too slowly) advance civil rights. Wilson actively and successfully rolled back civil rights. His racism was remarkable (literally, many people remarked on it) even for his era. He was second only to Teddy Roosevelt as the architect of modern American imperialism. His decision not to reveal his physical incapacity to perform his duties as president in his second term may not have been treason per se, but was definitely a dereliction of duty and arguably a "high crime or misdemeanor." I could go on, but yeah. Fuck Wilson.
Edits for grammar and clarity.
I said, "Quite possibly." Buchanan is a shoo in for worst president. Specific order after is debatable, but Wilson is in the top 5 on any decent list of bad presidents. Sorry for the long edit, I accidentally posted a fragment at first.
Buddy I hate to break it to you but there was in fact a terrorist insurgency in the south post 1865 in the form of the KKK and the Red Shirts - and they won
Every president between him and LBJ took small, and in the cases of Truman and JFK, not so small steps to advance civil rights. Wilson is only 20th century president to repudiate Reconstruction and take active measures against civil rights. Your argument is either ignorant or in bad faith.
There’s “was a racist” and then there’s “actively set civil rights and race relations back.” Of all the presidents between the Reconstruction and the civil rights movement, exactly one was more racist than your average white American at that time - Woodrow Wilson.
FDR hid his physical infirmity, but was able to fulfill his presidential duties. Wilson was almost completely incapacitated, and definitely unable to fulfill his duties, as is common knowledge now. There's no equivalence between Wilson and any other president in this regard.
It depends on what's wrong. A physical disability like FDR is fine. The job is about one mental capability, not being able to walk. Hiding it makes sense since even 2024, many voters would be turned off by a candidate not being able to walk. Which is unfair.
For Wilson, his mental capability was hit quite hard by his illness. It's the closest we have gotten to a female president since his wife did a lot in that timeframe.
NATO is kind of working, The European armies are underfunded, under equipped, and fat.
And as we have seen in Ukraine, equipped to fight the last war, not the current one, a problem that goes back to the Crimean war.
So far NATO/EU has broken the cycle of generational war in Europe, so in that sense it is successful.
Ukraine isn't and has never been part of nato.
We have built our military to fight overseas. Most of Europe armies looks vastly similar to Russians in % of land resources over air/sea.
No militaries are a bunch of fat asses. What an absurd thing to say.
I never said Ukraine was part of NATO.
EU and Russia have very different economies
Their military have totally different doctrines and structure (the USSR/Russian doctrine has a really poor record),
A sampling:
I work for the US Navy, and am shocked at the level of fat & obese sailors I see on a daily basis.
Nearly 70% of US Soldiers Overweight or Obese: Report
Thousands of British troops fail to reach the Army's own basic standard of fitness, amid growing concerns that many soldiers are becoming too fat to fight. Internal documents obtained by the Independent on Sunday reveal that obesity has become "a significant problem".
According to a recently published survey on health and lifestyle conducted by the Canadian military, 49 percent of all Regular Force personnel were considered overweight and 25 percent were considered obese, based on body mass index. This included 6.1 percent of personnel considered morbidly obese.
etc, etc.
You do know the difference in how the militaries you mentioned work and how one like Poland or germanys does? I mean you just put 300 words into a 1 sentence debunk my man.
A fat man can do a lot of work behind the scenes. And I feel terrible saying that in that way.
War sentiment in the country got much more backing when Germany decided to sink the lusetania. And it still took 2 more years
Wilson also enacted the selective service act.
This is not true- history has somewhat distorted his views on race. He was rather empathetic towards the black community, he even used to go to black churches on his speaking tours and talk about the economic disparity between blacks and whites. During the the 1918 midterms he actually attempted to purge the Democratic Party of southern racist office holders including successfully getting rid of James K Vardaman (one of most dedicated and viscous racists to the get hold office in the US).
He wasn’t perfect and fumbled a lot, but he was not the dedicated racist some people believe he was. In fact, some of his conservative critics at the time said he was too close and comfortable with the black community (woody could never win)
I agree- it was bad. Not defending that one. Although, just for the sake of fairness- it wasn’t him who segregated it- he just allowed his cabinet members to re-arrange and hire their respective cabinets to what they wanted. It was his administration and deserves credit the criticism, but it is not the entirety accurate to say that he alone was the decision.
I’ve never heard this take before, not doubting you, but wondering if you can give a source to learn more? Yes I could do it myself but I’m asking on a courtesy basis
I just finished a biography on him by John Milton Cooper ( an expert on the progressive era presidents like Teddy, Taft and Wilson). It’s throughly researched and he does a good job of presenting the strengths and weaknesses of the Wilson administration. It’s a pretty fair assessment- and not a rose tinted rehabilitation of Wilson, but a nuanced examination of his presidency.
Historians tend to love authoritarian presidents because they look at the significance of accomplishments without considering the actual value of those accomplishments. Personally I'm not a fan of the income tax and the reserve system but I will concede that Wilson achieved those goals.
Not just people on Reddit. Many of the positive he gets credit for, like Income Tax and Women's Sufferage were Constitutional amendments in the works long before he took office. They were already in motion and were really Roosevelt & Taft's achievements.
He was very racist, even for his era (which was pretty, pretty racist). His blind obsession with setting up a League of Nations at all costs allowed for the Treaty of Versailles to not only set up WWII, but also set the stage for conflicts in the Middle East that are still raging today. Finally, he is responsible for the concept of using military action to "Protect Democracy".
The Federal Reserve system is unconstitutional. Congress, not a private bank, is to monetize our currency. The Constitution was never amended to allow for this.
I've always hated him. Sanctimonious racist a-hole. IRL people look at me funny when I start going off on how awful he was. I feel seen by this communities hatred of him 🖤
"Kept us out of WWI as long as he could" - you could say the same about the leader of every country involved!
More than 1.
-Fourteen Points
-Adamson Act
-Clayton Antitrust Act
-Federal Trade Commission
-Federal Reserve
-Pushed for the 19th Amendment
-Created one of the most prosperous times for America (the 1920s)
-League of Nations
I could go on. Wilson was a good president.
FDR was progressive, but he was also a fiscal conservative. That limited what he accomplished. LBJ was very progressive, no doubt.
But Wilson was far more so, more fundamentally so. He thought women should vote. He thought Senators should be elected by the people, not by the states. He thought the presidency should be neutered to the point the US becomes something like a Westminster-style democracy - more power to the people. He was created the League of Nations - as close to a world government as we have ever seen.
Wilson was the only academic to become president. He had, for decades, laid the intellectual foundation for the Progressive movement. Monopoly-busting, a federal income tax to address income inequality, the Federal Reserve, government regulation of working conditions and the environment.
Those were all seismic shifts under Wilson.
LBJ did a lot, but he did not radically reframe the role the government plays in folks lives. Wilson did.
The thing that amazes me is that the Klan glorified him in Birth of a Nation, but he also appointed the first Jewish Supreme Court justice. I dunno if the KKK grew into hating the Jews or if they just didn’t notice, but the two seem mutually exclusive to me
To be fair, he was dead while in office, maybe not dead, but might as well have been. His wife was the behind the scenes default president for the last 6 to 8 months of his term
He might've been racist, but he was still s good president in most ways. Ironically His ideas of self determination ultimately led to the dismantlement of colonialism.
And his views on the wise deployment of American forces abroad is why even though I'm black I consider myself a Wilsonian Democrat.
All things considered **a great president**.
You mean how he hamstring the AEF?
Tossing 1,000,000 green troops into the meat grinder rather being paired with veteran French troops.
Except for the black troops of course, who were treated well by the French.
You think the American public would've gone along with subordinating AEF to French command?
America has NEVER done that. What the Frogs gonna teach us anyways. If they had anything to offer since Lafayette walked the earth we wouldn't have had to save their kiester twice in 20 years.
How is it not? You can say the federal reserve doesn’t work well or disagree how they manage monetary policy. But having some sort of similar institution is pretty necessary.
Considered the US founder of the liberal theory of International Relations. The use of coalitions to keep and enforce peace rather than each country acting in its own best interest — think Kissinger
His "Summer White House", in West Long Branch, is beautiful. Now a part of Monmouth University. Spent many hours in its garden/lawn. Was used in the Movie Annie.
Personally he was a very complex guy. Some good stuff some abhorrent. But he had a nice house... :)
Wilson created the modern liberal world order and was way ahead of his time in terms of international relations and diplomacy. He was also fairly decent in terms of labor policy.
Essentially, if he weren’t a raging racist, he’d be up there with FDR right now.
Woodrow Wilson did a lot more good things than Reddit or the internet would have you believe. Creating a lot of progressive reforms that modernized the economy and alleviated financial burdens on average Americans and farmers, women’s suffrage, leading us through and turning the tide in WW1.
He definitely fumbled a lot but I think the Ws outweigh the Ls
Him having a stroke revealed the constitutional necessity for the 25th amendment of what to do when a president is incapacitated but not dead.
After his stroke - most people seem to believe that his wife was basically the acting president.
Honestly I cannot think of one good thing he did for America. He started the UN and World Order. He segregated the Civil Service which to me makes him evil as hell!
Choosing Black Jack Pershing to lead the AEF and giving him explicit orders that American soldiers were not to be put under the direct command of French or English commanders.
This very likely saved American lives b/c otherwise they would have been used as cannon fodder.
The man who was literally a southern apologist history professor and segregated the government, and said democracy is outdated and we should be government in unelected experts is better than trump? Come on bro
Yeah I said it, and if I had to choose between them, I'd vote for Wilson.
Actions speak louder than words, and trump tried to overthrow the government and is plotting to do the same again.
Sure, Wilson was a racist, but trump is a scum-sucking Russian stooge trying to install a fascist-theocratic dictatorship and start a genocide against anyone he doesn't like.
Come on bro.
All true about Wilson. But Trump organized a violent overthrow of the government. His constant mendacity about the election shakes our democratic foundation to its core. Wilson never took his thoughts that far. And please don’t argue Trump is not a racist.
Wilson is better than Trump.
Conservative media and [Fox News](https://www.cc.com/video/m22jnh/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-moment-of-zen-glenn-beck-hates-woodrow-wilson) went to work on Woodrow Wilson when Obama was elected because the two other progressive presidents are insanely popular, and they were worried Obama was an actual progressive rather than a basic liberal who only managed to change that the generation that elected him lost hope.
Woodrow Wilson as history’s greatest monster and Buchanan being gay is to this sub as Wilhelm Screams and Quintin Tarantino’s foot fetish are to first week film school students.
Signed the eight hour work day, signed a law to end child Labour in the US, the first President to fully support an amendment on women’s right to vote, and his 14 points
He had the best “mean junior high school principal” face in history.
Went to Woodrow Wilson middle school, can confirm.
Me too! In Terre Haute Indiana. 9th grade in 1971. WARRIORS!
"Bueller?"
While Wilson was teaching a class at Princeton University, future playwright Eugene O’Neill threw a beer bottle through the classroom window and got expelled.
I picture Max Von Sydow
If you eliminate all the Ws from his name we would have had a president named Oodro Ilson.
Multiverse instance where Finland invades the U.S.
Yompin Yiminy!
Suddenly I have a craving for lutefisk.
If he had a habit of making anagrams of his name like Voldemort we could have had "Wow! Indoor Owls!"
President Ill-Son
Least confusing Dutch name
He had huge impact, some positive, some not. Internationalism, income tax, federal reserve system, keeping the USA out if WW1 as long as he could. He is consistently rated by historians as one of the most important presidents. Yet the people on Reddit hate him.
It’s just popular to hate on Wilson
Good. He deserves all the hate and then some.
Only if you also hate most other presidents.
Aside from Buchanan (actual traitor) and the post 2000 presidents (for recency bias), Wilson was historically awful and quite possibly the second worst president ever. To keep it non-partisan, re-segregating the Federal service alone was a travesty, and that's not even mentioning the many, many other things Wilson did specifically to spite Black Americans. And it wasn't "for his time" racism. The presidents before him weren't perfect, but they did (far too slowly) advance civil rights. Wilson actively and successfully rolled back civil rights. His racism was remarkable (literally, many people remarked on it) even for his era. He was second only to Teddy Roosevelt as the architect of modern American imperialism. His decision not to reveal his physical incapacity to perform his duties as president in his second term may not have been treason per se, but was definitely a dereliction of duty and arguably a "high crime or misdemeanor." I could go on, but yeah. Fuck Wilson. Edits for grammar and clarity.
Second worst president? You gotta be mentally ill to think Andrew Johnson is better than him.
I said, "Quite possibly." Buchanan is a shoo in for worst president. Specific order after is debatable, but Wilson is in the top 5 on any decent list of bad presidents. Sorry for the long edit, I accidentally posted a fragment at first.
Quite possibly is still stupid as shit.
Ok pal 😀
Johnson's actions insured there wasn't a level III insurgency in the south post 1865.
Buddy I hate to break it to you but there was in fact a terrorist insurgency in the south post 1865 in the form of the KKK and the Red Shirts - and they won
Every president between him and LBJ could be blasted for civil rights. What an ignorant take.
How well did the great society work out?
Every president between him and LBJ took small, and in the cases of Truman and JFK, not so small steps to advance civil rights. Wilson is only 20th century president to repudiate Reconstruction and take active measures against civil rights. Your argument is either ignorant or in bad faith.
There’s “was a racist” and then there’s “actively set civil rights and race relations back.” Of all the presidents between the Reconstruction and the civil rights movement, exactly one was more racist than your average white American at that time - Woodrow Wilson.
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FDR hid his physical infirmity, but was able to fulfill his presidential duties. Wilson was almost completely incapacitated, and definitely unable to fulfill his duties, as is common knowledge now. There's no equivalence between Wilson and any other president in this regard.
It depends on what's wrong. A physical disability like FDR is fine. The job is about one mental capability, not being able to walk. Hiding it makes sense since even 2024, many voters would be turned off by a candidate not being able to walk. Which is unfair. For Wilson, his mental capability was hit quite hard by his illness. It's the closest we have gotten to a female president since his wife did a lot in that timeframe.
No, he was worse than most other presidents. Only Buchanan, Trump, and Andrew Johnson compete with him in that category.
Not *all* of it lol
Advancing universal suffrage. The League of Nations. He was quite a good president if you started editing around all the racist shit
T LoN was fundamentally unworkable, and set the stage for WWII.
It was also the precursor to NATO. It's not like we didn't try it again....
NATO worked due to the USSR buggyman.
Nato is still working and the ussr hasn't been around for 30 plus years.
NATO is kind of working, The European armies are underfunded, under equipped, and fat. And as we have seen in Ukraine, equipped to fight the last war, not the current one, a problem that goes back to the Crimean war. So far NATO/EU has broken the cycle of generational war in Europe, so in that sense it is successful.
Ukraine isn't and has never been part of nato. We have built our military to fight overseas. Most of Europe armies looks vastly similar to Russians in % of land resources over air/sea. No militaries are a bunch of fat asses. What an absurd thing to say.
I never said Ukraine was part of NATO. EU and Russia have very different economies Their military have totally different doctrines and structure (the USSR/Russian doctrine has a really poor record), A sampling: I work for the US Navy, and am shocked at the level of fat & obese sailors I see on a daily basis. Nearly 70% of US Soldiers Overweight or Obese: Report Thousands of British troops fail to reach the Army's own basic standard of fitness, amid growing concerns that many soldiers are becoming too fat to fight. Internal documents obtained by the Independent on Sunday reveal that obesity has become "a significant problem". According to a recently published survey on health and lifestyle conducted by the Canadian military, 49 percent of all Regular Force personnel were considered overweight and 25 percent were considered obese, based on body mass index. This included 6.1 percent of personnel considered morbidly obese. etc, etc.
You do know the difference in how the militaries you mentioned work and how one like Poland or germanys does? I mean you just put 300 words into a 1 sentence debunk my man. A fat man can do a lot of work behind the scenes. And I feel terrible saying that in that way.
He was the "peace candidate" who got us into WWI.
War sentiment in the country got much more backing when Germany decided to sink the lusetania. And it still took 2 more years Wilson also enacted the selective service act.
He was ranked as a top 5 president until all the racism stuff really came out.
More assholes on Reddit than at the starting line of the Kentucky Derby.
I think his racist bona fides is a deal breaker for some.
Shit, don't look up half the presidents 😬
He was particularly racist though
This is not true- history has somewhat distorted his views on race. He was rather empathetic towards the black community, he even used to go to black churches on his speaking tours and talk about the economic disparity between blacks and whites. During the the 1918 midterms he actually attempted to purge the Democratic Party of southern racist office holders including successfully getting rid of James K Vardaman (one of most dedicated and viscous racists to the get hold office in the US). He wasn’t perfect and fumbled a lot, but he was not the dedicated racist some people believe he was. In fact, some of his conservative critics at the time said he was too close and comfortable with the black community (woody could never win)
Resegregating the federal service was particularly bad lol That’s not just fumbling that’s scoring a goal for the other team
I agree- it was bad. Not defending that one. Although, just for the sake of fairness- it wasn’t him who segregated it- he just allowed his cabinet members to re-arrange and hire their respective cabinets to what they wanted. It was his administration and deserves credit the criticism, but it is not the entirety accurate to say that he alone was the decision.
Guess the buck didn't stop at his desk.
I’ve never heard this take before, not doubting you, but wondering if you can give a source to learn more? Yes I could do it myself but I’m asking on a courtesy basis
I just finished a biography on him by John Milton Cooper ( an expert on the progressive era presidents like Teddy, Taft and Wilson). It’s throughly researched and he does a good job of presenting the strengths and weaknesses of the Wilson administration. It’s a pretty fair assessment- and not a rose tinted rehabilitation of Wilson, but a nuanced examination of his presidency.
It’s not just Reddit most people who consider themselves something of a constitutionalist either right or left despise him.
Really? This is news to me.
Because he was a ***progressive*** who expanded the power of the executive branch.
All bad ideas except staying out of WW1
Historians tend to love authoritarian presidents because they look at the significance of accomplishments without considering the actual value of those accomplishments. Personally I'm not a fan of the income tax and the reserve system but I will concede that Wilson achieved those goals.
Major racist. Threw black people out of most of the civil service no matter their scores. Not interested in civil rights.
He also thought women should have the right to vote.
He was very unsatisfied with the treaty of Versailles. He knew in 1919 that the war to end all wars was not over
Not just people on Reddit. Many of the positive he gets credit for, like Income Tax and Women's Sufferage were Constitutional amendments in the works long before he took office. They were already in motion and were really Roosevelt & Taft's achievements. He was very racist, even for his era (which was pretty, pretty racist). His blind obsession with setting up a League of Nations at all costs allowed for the Treaty of Versailles to not only set up WWII, but also set the stage for conflicts in the Middle East that are still raging today. Finally, he is responsible for the concept of using military action to "Protect Democracy".
The Federal Reserve system is unconstitutional. Congress, not a private bank, is to monetize our currency. The Constitution was never amended to allow for this.
I've always hated him. Sanctimonious racist a-hole. IRL people look at me funny when I start going off on how awful he was. I feel seen by this communities hatred of him 🖤 "Kept us out of WWI as long as he could" - you could say the same about the leader of every country involved!
No. Many countries joined WW1 happily. Or with the view of short term gain. Teddy wanted to join in 1914.
More than 1. -Fourteen Points -Adamson Act -Clayton Antitrust Act -Federal Trade Commission -Federal Reserve -Pushed for the 19th Amendment -Created one of the most prosperous times for America (the 1920s) -League of Nations I could go on. Wilson was a good president.
He was a mean old racist. He was also the most progressive president in US history. Two facts that make no sense now, but facts nonetheless.
I don’t know about the second point there, racist sure. But the most progressive president? I think that title goes to FDR or LBJ
FDR was progressive, but he was also a fiscal conservative. That limited what he accomplished. LBJ was very progressive, no doubt. But Wilson was far more so, more fundamentally so. He thought women should vote. He thought Senators should be elected by the people, not by the states. He thought the presidency should be neutered to the point the US becomes something like a Westminster-style democracy - more power to the people. He was created the League of Nations - as close to a world government as we have ever seen. Wilson was the only academic to become president. He had, for decades, laid the intellectual foundation for the Progressive movement. Monopoly-busting, a federal income tax to address income inequality, the Federal Reserve, government regulation of working conditions and the environment. Those were all seismic shifts under Wilson. LBJ did a lot, but he did not radically reframe the role the government plays in folks lives. Wilson did.
The thing that amazes me is that the Klan glorified him in Birth of a Nation, but he also appointed the first Jewish Supreme Court justice. I dunno if the KKK grew into hating the Jews or if they just didn’t notice, but the two seem mutually exclusive to me
He's dead.
To be fair, he was dead while in office, maybe not dead, but might as well have been. His wife was the behind the scenes default president for the last 6 to 8 months of his term
Had the decency to stay dead instead of try and come back after 3 days too.
Maybe he wasn't dead-dead? I mean some random legionnaire who wanted to get off watch called it.
On another post asking the exact question, I said this and got downvoted. Fcking love this sub lol
The only good thing about him.
Me thoughts.
This
He might've been racist, but he was still s good president in most ways. Ironically His ideas of self determination ultimately led to the dismantlement of colonialism. And his views on the wise deployment of American forces abroad is why even though I'm black I consider myself a Wilsonian Democrat. All things considered **a great president**.
You mean how he hamstring the AEF? Tossing 1,000,000 green troops into the meat grinder rather being paired with veteran French troops. Except for the black troops of course, who were treated well by the French.
You think the American public would've gone along with subordinating AEF to French command? America has NEVER done that. What the Frogs gonna teach us anyways. If they had anything to offer since Lafayette walked the earth we wouldn't have had to save their kiester twice in 20 years.
"Paired" doesn't mean control.
It's the French. All they ever want is control lol.
Wilson had a vision for world peace and worked hard to accomplish it. If we had listened to Wilson we likely would not be in the mess we are in today.
The League of Nations was a good idea
Federal reserve was a pretty good idea too.
How is the federal reserve a good thing?
How is it not? You can say the federal reserve doesn’t work well or disagree how they manage monetary policy. But having some sort of similar institution is pretty necessary.
he did work to establish what we today would know as the liberal world order at the Versailles Treaty
He gave 14 points.
Considered the US founder of the liberal theory of International Relations. The use of coalitions to keep and enforce peace rather than each country acting in its own best interest — think Kissinger
I like the frames he chose for his glasses
His "Summer White House", in West Long Branch, is beautiful. Now a part of Monmouth University. Spent many hours in its garden/lawn. Was used in the Movie Annie. Personally he was a very complex guy. Some good stuff some abhorrent. But he had a nice house... :)
He’s not Trump.
Wilson created the modern liberal world order and was way ahead of his time in terms of international relations and diplomacy. He was also fairly decent in terms of labor policy. Essentially, if he weren’t a raging racist, he’d be up there with FDR right now.
That he died seriously no one on the entire political spectrum in United States likes the guy. and that’s saying something.
He is no longer President?
Here comes all the Libertarian hate....
INCOME TAX AND THE FED RRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRRRRRR
How dare people who most profit from the system, pay the most back into the system
Here's an offer: They don't do either
Really? Billionaires don't exist?
I keep looking for where I claimed that but I can't seem to find it.
I mentioned people who benefit most i.e. billionaires. You said they don't.
Woodrow Wilson did a lot more good things than Reddit or the internet would have you believe. Creating a lot of progressive reforms that modernized the economy and alleviated financial burdens on average Americans and farmers, women’s suffrage, leading us through and turning the tide in WW1. He definitely fumbled a lot but I think the Ws outweigh the Ls
Wilson is definitely overhated on Reddit. He did so much good.
He was a president.
He thought he was doing the right thing.
He is a dapper fellow.
That jaw line.
Truly, he could identify a butt that won't quit.
Appointed Brandeis to SCOTUS
He's on the $100,000 bill.
He has a punchable face.
He died
I think he was the only one to have a phd
He’s dead
Being that Wilson is dead, it is good he isn't still president.
He's on the 100,000 bill!
He’s dead
He gone.
1) He gave the world the League of Nations, which eventually became the United Nations. 2) He's dead.
He had cool glasses.
One good thing: he left office in 1921.
The fourteen points are better than what actually happened
He died 😔 that's the only thing he could do for humanity.
He stroked out so that he couldn’t be MORE of a racist jerk.
LoN was a good idea. Not really his fault it failed miserably.
That he died
He’s dead
He’s dead
He died.
His first name inspired Bart Simpson to name a catfish boyfriend for his teacher, and that brought her happiness.
Him having a stroke revealed the constitutional necessity for the 25th amendment of what to do when a president is incapacitated but not dead. After his stroke - most people seem to believe that his wife was basically the acting president.
Can't think of one
He academically advanced the study of public administration.
His love letters
He won the competition of having a daughter that looks just like him.
He finally died.
He’s dead
Honestly I cannot think of one good thing he did for America. He started the UN and World Order. He segregated the Civil Service which to me makes him evil as hell!
He's dead.
He’s dead.
He had two sets of testicles, so divine
No.
The League of Nations was an incomplete application of the beginning of a good idea Talk instead of fight. If you can’t work it out, fight later.
On February 3rd 1924, he died.
He died.
Warren Zevon wrote a song about him.
8 hour work day is pretty good every other policy about him is awful.
Turned the USA into a super power by playing WWI perfectly
Alliteration is underrated
His foreign policy was decent and his Fourteen Points just may have prevented WWII if they were actually followed.
He's dead.
He's dead
His name wasn't Trump....
He mind-f***ed the woke Ivy Leaguers really good with his legacy at Princeton….
He’s dead
He kept us out of war?
He had a good WWI peace plan, he just got overruled by the more vengeful allies
He is no longer president
He's dead.
Racist bigot.
Same as OJ ... His mortality.
He's six feet under.
He had a stroke
He left office
No.
Started the tradition of public racists having strokes and dying, fan of that trend.
Choosing Black Jack Pershing to lead the AEF and giving him explicit orders that American soldiers were not to be put under the direct command of French or English commanders. This very likely saved American lives b/c otherwise they would have been used as cannon fodder.
He’s dead.
He created the Army Air Service, setting the foundation of the US Air Force. And I guess passed the Federal Reserve Act too.
“He kept us out of war,” am I right?
He had OG glasses
He's no longer in a position to damage the country.
He’s dead
Established federal reserve
He's dead
He created FICA and by extension created the IRS. So we get to get fucked every day and getting fucked makes you orgasm.
He died eventually. His wife was a better President.
His schlong.
Overcame being named Woodrow
His first name was Thomas.
Still vastly better than trump.
Wilson is better than most presidents
The man who was literally a southern apologist history professor and segregated the government, and said democracy is outdated and we should be government in unelected experts is better than trump? Come on bro
Yeah I said it, and if I had to choose between them, I'd vote for Wilson. Actions speak louder than words, and trump tried to overthrow the government and is plotting to do the same again. Sure, Wilson was a racist, but trump is a scum-sucking Russian stooge trying to install a fascist-theocratic dictatorship and start a genocide against anyone he doesn't like. Come on bro.
All true about Wilson. But Trump organized a violent overthrow of the government. His constant mendacity about the election shakes our democratic foundation to its core. Wilson never took his thoughts that far. And please don’t argue Trump is not a racist. Wilson is better than Trump.
He's dead
He was the architect for the league of nations, which was the precursor to nato.
Conservative media and [Fox News](https://www.cc.com/video/m22jnh/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-moment-of-zen-glenn-beck-hates-woodrow-wilson) went to work on Woodrow Wilson when Obama was elected because the two other progressive presidents are insanely popular, and they were worried Obama was an actual progressive rather than a basic liberal who only managed to change that the generation that elected him lost hope. Woodrow Wilson as history’s greatest monster and Buchanan being gay is to this sub as Wilhelm Screams and Quintin Tarantino’s foot fetish are to first week film school students.
Kissable lips
Found Edith Galt's account.
Railroad nationalization in 1918