Quote by Joseph E. Persico

Woodrow Wilson is reported to have told a Princeton colleague, shortly after the 1912 election, "It would be an irony of fate if my…

— James M Strock

“Woodrow Wilson has just made the decision to take part in World War I. What was he feeling then? Did he know the possible…

— Zachary Crosby

Woodrow Wilson administration ended in tragedy, with his insistence on governing following his disabling stroke. I suspect President Wilson is often graded on a…

— James M Strock

“The danger of rejecting America’s founding principles is illustrated best in this instance by Wilson himself. As is well documented, Wilson was an open…

— Mark R. Levin

“people who were polite to his mistress. Lloyd George spoke to the group. “That German ship delivered the guns to Mexico after all. It…

— Ken Follett

In Washington, we had a grieving President Wilson, very, very much a lonely, grieving man. He had lost his wife of many years in…

— Erik Larson

During Richard Nixon’s first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the South’s ability…

— Melvin Laird

“Woodrow Wilson intimate Edward House urged that his boss never first be approached by argument. Instead, the President could be made most receptive by…

— David Pietrusza

“Without prior notice to the other powers or even to the State Department officials concerned with the consortium, Wilson proceeded to inform the press…

— Warren I. Cohen

“The modern Presidents Club was founded by two men who by all rights should have loathed each other. There was Harry Truman, the humble…

— Nancy Gibbs

“These great men had no reciprocal appreciation the one for the other. Sumner was honest in the belief that Grant knew nothing but war,…

— Archibald Henry Grimke

“It was a “severe” disappointment to Henry Wilson who laid it all at the door of Kitchener and the Cabinet for having sent only…

— Barbara W. Tuchman