There's still lots to say about Wilson, so let's start by letting him tell us in his own words:
"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the fields of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."
Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom, 1913
And let's not forget that he was the one who signed the legislation enacting the Federal Reserve, about which he later said:
"A great industrial Nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the Nation and all our activities, are in the hands of a few men. We have become to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world - no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominate men . . . I have unwittingly ruined my country"--President Woodrow Wilson (National Economy and the Banking System, Senate Documents, Col. 3 No. 23)
Wilson is quoted by close friends and relatives as having said on his death bed, "I have betrayed my nation."
And of course there are his 14 points and the League of Nations, forerunner to today's UN, of which Clemenceau of France said:
"Mr. Wilson bores me with his 14 points; why, God Almighty has only 10."
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