Woodrow
Americannoun
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Woodrow Wilson jailed war critics, put enemy aliens under tight constraints, and prohibited the dissemination of antiwar materials through the mail.
Past US presidents, including George Washington, John F Kennedy and Woodrow Wilson, may have had dyslexia, according to some researchers.
From BBC
After World War I, Woodrow Wilson barnstormed the country to gin up support for a treaty that would have seen the U.S. join the League of Nations.
From Slate
Woodrow Wilson, the most prominent modern proponent of sanctions, wasn’t squishy, calling sanctions a “hand upon the throat of the offending nation,” and a “peaceful, silent, deadly remedy” that will “not cost a life outside of the nation boycotted,” but which apply pressure that “in my judgment, no modern nation could resist.”
County sheriff’s deputies Jonathan Miramontes and Woodrow Kim, ended with a lightning fast acquittal.
From Los Angeles Times
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