Posted on 06/29/2024 10:07:34 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Rebecca Boggs Roberts opens Untold Power, her delightful new biography of First Lady Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, with a gripping scene that seems scripted for Hollywood. To set the stage: In the fall of 1919, after a grueling seven months in Europe negotiating the end of World War I, a bruising battle with the Senate over the treaty’s ratification, and a cross-country train tour to promote the League of Nations, President Woodrow Wilson suffered a series of strokes that left him partially paralyzed, intellectually diminished, and often incoherent. Remarkably, Edith Wilson—the president’s second wife, of just four years—along with a tiny coterie of loyal aides successfully conspired to hide the president’s illness from the public, government officials, and even from the president himself. For months, Wilson remained bedridden while the White House insisted that he was merely suffering from nervous exhaustion.
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You made bed your bed democrats, lie in it.
Is Jill running the country, or is obama?
Either way is bad indeed!
No, she wasn’t. And Wilson in his condition should have resigned.
Acting Presidential Consortium: Hillary, Obama and Valerie Jarett. PS Yikes!
Clearly this ain’t the Democrat’s first rodeo!
Wilson was a catastrophe. He was the beginning of the ruin we are looking at.
I haven’t seen any evidence that Jill is capable of running anything. At best, she is responsible for coaching Bidon when he has to attend anything publicly.
Nice try Washington monthly
No one’s voting for any package deal. Jill Biden is as gone as Joe. She’ll be the last to know
Holder is running the DOJ and the Lawfare.
No doubt about that.
A story like this is either printed with an eye on Jill Biden, or else an eye on Kamala Harris.
On one hand, Jill could be running things while she enables her senile husband to sit in the chair. Just like Edith. But while Edith Wilson really was making decisions, I don't think anyone really worries that Jill is actually running the country. That's Obama's job.
On the other hand, there could be some excitement that, if Joe has to step down, the US might get it's first female president. Yeah! Go Kamala! How awesome!
But for anyone who doesn't want Kamala to take the office (that would be: everyone) you can run a story like this -- first president? Kamala? Oh, no, I think we've been here before. Edith Wilson -- there's the first female president. So, you know, Kamala isn't anything special. Might as well toss her aside because she's not even a "first" or anything.
Indeed.
Neither. It's the oligarchs who control Jill and Obama.
This was an era of no TV, prior to public use of radio, and silent movies. Fed.gov was well below 10% of the economy (outside of WWI expenditure). Politics was certainly local and news travelled by telex.
With agreement of the few people with access to the President, it would be easy to conceal Wilson's infirmity.
Like Jill Biden, Edith Wilson was the First Nurse. That’s actually a position of some power, but I’d look into which of Wilson’s advisors and staffers was still around and in contact with Edith. That’s probably who made the decisions.
In his career Wilson had a reputation for breaking with subordinates and repudiating them and firing them, so whoever was still around was lucky indeed.
Wilson, FDR, Biden...
Sickly Marxist peas in a pod...
In the same sense that Peyton Randolph was the first POTUS, ... yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyton_Randolph
Agreed. Wilson was a Communist before communism was an official political ideology.
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