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- After the war's conclusion, she pleaded with Woodrow not to undertake a grueling cross-country campaign in support of his cherished League of Nations. Wilson's resulting physical breakdown and paralyzing stroke gave occasion for Edith's most enduring legacy.
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On December 8, 1941, the day after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war, taking pains to draw a link with Wilson's April 1917 declaration of war.
Oct 11, 2024 · After the United States entered World War I in April 1917, Edith endeavoured to help. Along with the president’s daughters, she volunteered at a Red Cross canteen and encouraged American women to economize on food so that soldiers could eat better.
- Betty Boyd Caroli
Mar 7, 2023 · By December 1919, Edith Wilson had finally settled into a routine. After weeks of increasingly frail health, her husband, President Woodrow Wilson, had suffered a massive stroke on October 2....
- Rebecca Boggs Roberts
Jun 12, 2020 · At war’s end, Edith escorted Wilson to Europe so he could help negotiate and sign the Treaty of Versailles and present his vision of a League of Nations to prevent any future world wars....
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Edith Wilson (1872-1961) was an American first lady (191521) and the second wife of Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States. The couple married just a year after the 1914 death of Wilsons first wife, Ellen. Though Edith admitted she had no prior knowledge ofor interest inpolitics, she soon became deeply involved in presidential affairs....
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson traced her ancestry to Virginia colonial aristocracy. The daughter of Sallie White and Judge William Holcombe Bolling, she was a direct descendant of Pocahontas on her fathers side, and was related by blood or through marriage to Thomas Jefferson, Martha Washington and Letitia Tyler. However, Edith did not grow up in luxur...
Edith met Norman Galt, a partner in a prominent Washington, D.C., silver and jewelry store, through her sisters marriage into the Galt family. After a lengthy courtship of more than four years, the two were married from 1896 until Galt died unexpectedly in 1908. Edith then took over ownership of the store, overseeing its day-to-day operation while ...
As first lady, Edith delegated traditional ceremonial duties to a secretary and retained a close interest in presidential affairs. Her prominent role snowballed, however, after Wilsons stroke in October 1919. Aiming to keep Wilsons fragile state hidden from the public, she became the sole conduit between the president and his cabinet, determining w...
Wilson returned to campaign for Senate approval of the peace treaty and the League of Nations Covenant. His health failed in September 1919; a stroke left him partly paralyzed.
She was apprised of state matters and, after the outbreak of the First World War, even decoded secret transmissions. All the while, Edith was attendant to her husband's increasingly...
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