John Dos Passos, another hero of the accedemic left.
Declared that anyone, including the press could not criticize the war or the administration on pain of jail time and made it happen for a large number of war oppponents, including a Congresssman. This effort was enforced by a new "agency" whose only duty was to root out opponents and jailing them. Certain publications were effectivedly censored or put out of business by shutting the Postal Services to them.
Who declared that all strikes organized by unions were prohibited during the war and any union leaders that delared a strike would imprisoned? The same president effectively emprisoned a train load of union leaders, leaving them in a sidelined train in the desert of Arizona.
What president declared that anyone who failed to support the war by buying war bonds was a traitor to be ostracized and puiblically ridiculed..
What president began a massive draft of young men who were exposed to a new epidemic that killed thousands of them in over-crowded new camps and then made the epidemic into a pandemic world-wide by shipping the troops, many infected, to Europe and as many as 20 million people died? This same president said nary a word to the public about the epidemic although thousands were dying every day in US cities?
What president went to the peace conference after the war and fell prey to the epidemic himself, thus losing his concentration and allowing the French to dictate the terms to the losers and helping bring about WW II?
Give up? It was Woodrow Wilson, another RAT president. For a review of all these facts, read "The Great Influenza" By John Barry, an amazingly well-documented book that will shock all readers.
For a second there I Pat Buchanan wrote this so we wouldn't help the Jews, the Brits, or the French ...