‘Fine American Spirit’?

Let’s take a moment to remember the day Woodrow Wilson abandoned his presidential duties while staying in office.

Via Wikimedia Commons
President Wilson in June 1920 at the White House after his stroke, with his wife at his side. Via Wikimedia Commons

“It is a fine American spirit — fine alike of those with and those against his League of Nations — which feels and expresses the national sympathy for President Wilson returning to the White House because of his exhausted physical forces. It is a sound American sentiment which is grateful that he will not exact of his bodily strength a greater tax than it can safely bear.”

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