Academia to politics. Set an example for future first ladies. Year and a half of his term. Edithieving president met , and she served as first lady for five years. Her unprecedented role in managing affairs is one of the most consequential efforts of any first lady. Good evening, and welcome to our continuing series. The wilsonry of first ladies. Christine miller is a biographer f the first ladies. Mr. Cooper is Woodrow Wilsons biographer. We are going to break precedent. Thesee been telling stories chronologically, but everyone knows about edith wilson managing the white house after a stroke. So many people want to know what happened. Suffer the stroke . 1919. Was in october of trying to sell the country on going into the league of nations. Aborted the tour and got him back into the white house. Five days into the white house he suffered a massive stroke. The story of the stroke is very dramatic. Can you tell us what happened . Conflicting reports about what happened, but i think the
Religious piety. They grew up in a parsonage and were deeply influenced by the ideals of missionary calvinism, the idea that the world is divided between good and evil and that christians have to go out into the world and transform the evil into good. A very short step from that to take it into politics and believe that politically, the world is divided between good regimes and evil regimes. And that it is the duty of the good regimes, that is us to go , out into the world and destroy that evil. That is an important part of the dulles brothers formation. The other big influence on them was the decades that they spent as corporate lawyers working for this very important law firm, sullivan and cromwell in new york. That was not a law firm that you went to if you needed a contract drawn up or to be represented in court. Sullivan and cromwell had a specialty. That was pressuring small weak countries to accept the demands of big american corporations. That is what allen dulles and foster du
Recently died when that super airport in chantilly, virginia was being built. President eisenhower announced that the airport would be named Dulles Airport. When kennedy took over, he didnt want to name it after a crusty old cold war era. The was pushed back and finally the decision was made to name it after dulles. You can still see the film clip of kennedy opening the airport with eisenhower there and allen dulles there. He pulls back a curtain and behind the curtain is this giant bust of John Foster Dulles. That stands in the middle of this big airport. I went to see it while i was writing this book. I couldnt find it. I started asking security guards. Nobody had ever even heard of it. It was a long process and finally, thanks to the washington airport authority, i was able to discover that the bust had been taken away from its place in the middle of the airport and it is now in a closed Conference Room opposite baggage claim number three. I find this a wonderful metaphor for how th
In 1907. By 1908, he had scribbled on a little note somewhere. My precious one, my beloved mary. I dont think he sent it to her. I think he was venting her feelings. Ellen was upset. She accused him of emotional love for this woman. But she tolerated mary and tried to protect woodrow from the scandal. There still was some scandal. Theodore roosevelt was invited in the 1912 election to make use of this. Somebody said that they had letters between woodrow and mary. And although they were never as ardent as his letters to ellen had been, they were simply compromising. And roosevelt said, no, that would be wrong. And also that nobody would believe him. Yeah. Because that was that was very noble of Theodore Roosevelt. But you said you said, what i cant believe that somebody who looks like the apoth cares cud could be romeo. I dont believe that. Doing the best t. R. Invitation on the program. No. This momentous on the United States and those who enter world war i. What happens in the white h
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