CSPAN FILMS PRESENTATION AT WOODROW WILSON HOUSE

Oct 19, 2016 by

CSPAN FILMS PRESENTATION AT WOODROW WILSON HOUSE

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CSPAN filmed presentation on Madam President The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson at the Woodrow Wilson House in Washington DC. The Woodrow Wilson house was the residence of President Wilson and Edith Wilson after they left the White House in 1921. William Hazelgrove’s new book Madam President The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson is now available.

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After President Woodrow Wilson suffered a paralyzing stroke in the fall of 1919, his wife, First Lady Edith Wilson, began to handle the day-to-day responsibilities of the Executive Office. Mrs. Wilson had had little formal education and had only been married to President Wilson for four years; yet, in the tenuous peace following the end of World War I, Mrs. Wilson dedicated herself to managing the office of the President, reading all correspondence intended for her bedridden husband. Though her Oval Office authority was acknowledged in Washington, D.C. circles at the time–one senator called her “the Presidentress who had fulfilled the dream of suffragettes by changing her title from First Lady to Acting First Man”–her legacy as “First Woman President” is now largely forgotten.

Madam President The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson

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William Hazelgrove

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Born in Richmond, Virginia, and carted back and forth between Virginia and Baltimore, I blame my rootless, restless personality on my father. He was and is a traveling salesman with a keen gift of gab, great wit, a ready joke, and could sell white tennis shoes to coal miners. [read more...]

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