[Polyxene]

YEP! Edith Bolling Galt Wilson ran the country after WW’s stroke. She even kept his aides and congressmen from seeing him. Years ago, I read a book titled, “When the Cheering Stopped”. It was about Wilson’s last days in office and out of office until his death and was very good. I don’t know if it is still in print.

[forgotten man]

I like the part in your second to last sentence that reads “...his death was very good.” That sums up the Woodrow Wilson presidency quite well.

[Verginius Rufus]

Wilson's first wife died about the time the First World War was breaking out in Europe. Edith Bolling Galt was his second wife.

Rumor had it that when President Wilson proposed to her, she was so surprised that she fell out of bed.