With great thanks to my and for filling in last week. Thank you for being here with us. Good night from nbc news headquarters in new york. Woodrow wilson was first elected president in 1912 when he ran for reelection in 1916, one of the animating issues of that campaign was world war i which was raging in europe and which wilson promised the United States would not join in 1916 he was barely rehe electricitied and the u. S. Went into the dechaired war on germany and wilson was not only facing the typical headwinds that a president s party faces in midterm elections, but he was also roundly dehe tested for world war i and other things. In 1918, Woodrow Wilsons party got beat. The republicans getting congress, that had far reaching consequences in all sorts of ways, bullt in the house it mea a gigantic and cons kwen tall promotion for Albert Johnson. Such a generic name. Actually hard to google. There was a another congressman named Albert Johnson who had nothing to do with him. A federa
A white marble cross marks the grave of Sgt. Verdun Durant Smith of Orangeburg, S.C., one of more than 5,000 Americans who died in World War II and are interred at a cemetery more than 4,000 miles away.