Woodrow Wilson's Stroke

On October 2, 1919, Edith Wilson found her husband, US President Woodrow Wilson, unconscious on the floor of his private bathroom. The nation spent the next 17 months not knowing Wilson’s condition or prognosis. Woodrow Wilson's stroke changed world policy, our understanding of the presidency, and might even have affected who would be elected the next president.
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[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

For the record, the timing of the episode is based on the anniversary of President Wilson’s stroke. No, I had no advanced knowledge of President Trump’s illness. My collection of items does not include a crystal ball.

[@wp12mv]

That's also what I'd say if I could look into the future haha

[@kathyboxx3678]

I believe you. Lots of people live with blinded eyes.

[@gus473]

May I recommend the book "Innumeracy" by John Allen Paulos! Crazy coincidence is not all that crazy!

[@nonprogrediestregredi1711]

Perhaps you do not have a crystal ball. Your magic 8 ball, however, has shown to be quite effective. Am I right? It's alright, you can tell me; I can keep a secret!

[@tyranosurasmax]

suuuuuuuuurrreeeeee. Likely excuse lol

[@normangerring4645]

So if he never fully recovered, the question is how many legal documents did he sign in those 17 months?

[@jamesricker3997]

That would also explain why he was not able to campaign against the 18th amendment , probation. He considered it a bad idea and thought it would lead to organized gangs of criminals controlling the illegal liquor industry

[@constancemiller3753]

@@jamesricker3997 My Professor lectured on the 19th Amendment: Votes for Women. He talked of how the First Lady might have signed it.

[@joefish1439]

@@jamesricker3997 Prohibition, Good Post

[@wholeNwon]

All of them I would think.

[@lordgarion514]

Never fully recovering doesn't mean he wasn't mentally capable. Damage to the brain is what causes the partial paralysis, but damage to that part of the brain has nothing to do with your mental state. Not all parts of the brain get damaged, and the parts that do don't all get the same amount of damage, or recover the exact same amount.

[@JavaSamaThree]

As a stroke survivor myself, I found this fascinating. The introspection that comes along with a brain injury is often overlooked. Hearing how his perception of himself was different than those around him was incredibly relatable. I often find myself questioning if the pre-stroke version of me would feel the same way about any given topic I consider. This shared thread elevated this episode to my favorite you've done. Thank you sir!

[@tugginalong]

Calvin Coolidge, as governor of Massachusetts, was strong and decisive concerning the chaos and civil unrest in Boston and mainly the Boston Police’s strike, which thrust him into the national spotlight. He was added to Warren Harding’s ticket which they won and Coolidge became Harding’s Vice President. Harding died 2 1/2 years later making Coolidge President. In his autobiography, Coolidge discusses Woodrow Wilson’s weak response to the civil unready in Massachusetts. He assumed Wilson’s complete focus was on the League of Nations and nothing else mattered including US domestic issues.

[@finddeniro]

Edward M. House. .ah foreign . .Favors

[@TrainsFerriesFeet]

@Sheldon Robertson Please remember that the policies favored by the 2 parties in the early to mid 20th century was far different than today.

[@person3070]

what page does he talk about Woodrow Wilson in his autobiography?

[@surinfarmwest6645]

Such an interesting part of history. We were taught about Wilson at school of course, as part of WW1 and the aftermath but not much else. Love this channel as I learn so much about what happened over the pond. I can still remember lessons on the TVA but not the Presidents. Thank you so much for sharing this.

[@kylez8010]

You learned about the Tennessee Valley Authority in England? Or is that something else?

[@kaylew108]

I remember learning mostly about the League of Nations and it being the forerunner of the United Nations

[@simpleman5688]

Surin Farmwest Yea, thanks to him we have the federal reserve.

[@MrTaxiRob]

Did you learn about him being a racial segregationist who threw conscientious war objectors in prison?

[@phillipstoltzfus3014]

His worst thing was creating a central banking system leading to the great depression.

[@kathyhester3066]

Many years ago I read a book by Lillian Rodgers Park entitled Backstairs At The Whitehouse. In it she described her mother's and her service as maids, etc. at the White House. Her mother started the day William Howard Taft was sworn in and ended with Ms. Parks retirement on the day John F. Kennedy was sworn in to office. In this book she covered many of the major and minor day to day going on of the country and President's families. She gave a very detailed account on how Mrs. Wilson staged everything for a meeting between Pres. Wilson and members of the Senate when they were "talking impeachment on the Hill". Fascinating book; made into a miniseries for TV. Don't know if either is still available. Started my interest in history.

[@stevenwiederholt7000]

On the Right there is an ongoing debate/discussion for many many years as to Who was the Worst President. Woodrow Wilson is always in the running. I'm so old I was taught about his stroke in grade school.

[@yippie21]

Count me as awarding Wilson as the worst.

[@DWilliam1]

He was horrific

[@stuartdollar9912]

As a Democrat, I mostly agree with them.

[@stevenwiederholt7000]

@@sncy5303 Said no reasonably intelligent person ever.

[@whyuhatan]

@@sncy5303 And hopefully he is not dethroned from that honor for some time to come

[@drsch]

It's not shocking that his administration would respond this way. The idea that he would relinquish any power to anyone else, ever just never crossed his mind. Things like checks, balances, the Constitution and laws were just things that got in his way.

[@carllarsen]

sounds familiar

[@DavidSmith-ss1cg]

Ronald Reagan's middle name was Wilson, and he returned to the White House a portrait of Wilson that'd been missing(and maybe hidden) for 60 years.

[@baldeagle5297]

@@carllarsen Yes, but Obama's gone now. Cheer up.

[@redram5150]

Just think indeed, sir

[@carllarsen]

@@baldeagle5297 almost 4 years he's been out of office and still blaming him for der trumpenfurher's bumbling ineptitude. classic.

[@davepratt9909]

A follow on about JFK's Addison Disease and the FDR's health would be interesting.

[@starventure]

Eisenhower’s heart attack while in office deserves attention as well.

[@wendyweaver8749]

@@starventure - But Eisenhower's heart attack was never kept secret from either government officials or the public. In fact, Eisenhower ordered his medical team to opt for complete openness and to respond truthfully to questions asked about his health, even details about his bowel movements.

[@texaswoc3461]

I think this event definitely established a precedent for cover up of a president’s illness/incapacity later used by FDR.

[@almostfm]

@@texaswoc3461 It goes back further than that. Grover Cleveland had cancer surgery where part of his jaw was removed at the start of his second term. He went on a four day "fishing trip" on a friend's yacht, and the operation was done on board. It was kept secret for about 25 years before one of the doctors admitted to it.

[@matthewpoplawski8740]

David Pratt, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND the book HIS FINAL BATTLE: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt by Joseph Lelyveld. This book gives a VERY DETAILED ACCOUNT of the state of FDR'S health.🤔🤔🤔✌✌✌✌

[@havocmaverick]

In my opinion the worst president ever. The only way he won is because Roosevelt and Taft were running against each other and Wilson.

[@SuperScottCrawford]

Actually, he ran against Hillary Clinton. Wait, who are we talking about?

[@EthelredHardrede-nz8yv]

@@SuperScottCrawford Trump. One of the worst presidents ever. OK I tend to forget about Harding and Pierce who was so bad that he didn't get his party's nomination for re-election. All three were/are worse than Wilson. www.npr.org/sections/politicaljunkie/2009/07/a_president_denied_renominatio.html "That was Franklin Pierce, the 14th president, who was elected as a Democrat in 1852. His pro-Southern sentiments and his policy of failing to lead on the divisive issue of slavery badly hurt his standing with the voters. Especially damaging was his support for the pro-slavery Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which backfired on him as Kansas was overrun by pro-slavery forces, mostly from the slave state of Missouri. The events angered Northerners everywhere and helped lead to the creation of the Republican Party. When Democratic delegates gathered in Cincinnati for their convention in 1856, it was clear that they had had enough of Pierce. James Buchanan, who had been defeated by Pierce for the nomination four years earlier, won the nomination on the 17th ballot." Buchanan was a bad president as well, certainly in the same class as Trump. Dummy Bush was really bad and was sorta related to Pierce by a marriage. Remember that by the end of Dummy's second term even the Republicans thought he was one of worst ever. Another is STILL on 20 dollar bill. Jackson, REALLY bad, a racist of the worst sort, genocidal, and an ideologue that busted the US economy. These six are quite likely the worst six, by a lot.

[@ivokarmely453]

President Buchanan was the worst the President of all time not President Wilson. Not even close.

[@EthelredHardrede-nz8yv]

@@KLRJUNE Yeah, a god put in the stupidest and worst president in one hundred years.

[@truartist5379]

With George Jr on the line?

[@DanielStarbuck]

I hope the cynical Historian sees this video, WIIILLSOONN!!!

[@josephsmith1893]

Please do some Native American History... Native Americans are history worth remembering...

[@thedreadtyger]

absolutely! how about the contribution of Hiawatha to peace and law?

[@trythinking6676]

And where our constitution came from, that is the league of five nations.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

to clarify- are you seeking the history of participation by native Americans in US History, or history of the nations before European contact?

[@josephsmith1893]

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Hi, I guess it's up to you which Native American history that you would like to make videos. I have some knowledge (from school) on Native American history before and after the Europeans. I am just hoping that if you make it, that many more people will see it.

[@josephsmith1893]

@wargent99 I can't stand people who complain that other people's history aren't good enough. Native American History is History Deserves to Be Remembered!

[@ariellep4477]

Check out Woodrow Wilson and the Federal Reserve. There's some history there that definitely needs to be remembered!

[@redram5150]

1913 needs to be repealed. The Fed, income tax need to die ASAP

[@jimmym3352]

@Chris_Wooden_Eye Ruined this country? Our best years have been the last 100 years. Never have we seen this much wealth.

[@redram5150]

Jimmy M and just imagine the amount of wealth that could have been created without the government stealing a chunk of it only to be inefficiently and ineffectively doled out by bureaucrats

[@LordFalconsword]

Not to mention the 16th and 17th amendments. I travelled back in time to kill Adolph Hitler, but I screwed up and killed Woodrow Wilson. Who the hell is Hitler? Wilson was a scumbag of epic proportions. My comment above was deleted earlier, and that's bullshit.

[@hillbilly4895]

Check out the big brain on Arielle!

[@Nope_handlesaretrash]

Woodrow Wilson may have been able to moderate France and England's treatment of Germany to the extent a full-blown rise of militant revenge minded people in Germany in response to the communists and the failures of the Weimar republic would not have been necessary to them. Woodrow Wilson stroke helps set the stage for World war II.

[@libertyprime619]

Not to mention that Japan came to the league and asked if civil rights and racism should be dealt with, everyone agreed except Woodrow wilson. Woody boi caused pearl harbor

[@ahkarsmith4691]

If history, true history, were taught with such succinctness I may not have failed history in my senior year of high school. Keep up the excellent work, you’ve sparked something in this 79 year guy.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@mitch_the_-itch]

High School is Progressive indoctrination. Nothing to do with real "History." To find real History you must find it yourself. The greatest education you can find is the opposition to the propaganda vended by most History teachers.

[@deowen66]

You should do an episode on Charles Curtis, our Native American Vice President from Kansas. My dad started a campaign to get VP Curtis more recognition but passed away before he got a real chance to do so, eventhough he was able to bring it up to a retired Bob Dole.

[@stevedietrich8936]

OK, I've had my coffee, brain is open and ready. Go ahead and fill it up.

[@ianholmquist8492]

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -W.B. Yeats

[@DawnOldham]

I’m in your exact shoes right now. Just finished my coffee and opened You Tube to find this awaiting me! 😁

[@rplpalacio1920]

Teacher my head's full can I be excused😁

[@oneyetiger]

Has the Biden team been advised of Wilson's predicament from the History channel.

[@RalphReagan]

Too bad Wilson's vp didn't take over. He's the one who said "what this country needs is a good 5 cent cigar".

[@wadegrant7465]

Dementia Joe has broken Wilson's record, we've been leaderless since January 20, 2021

[@raycast6277]

Sir you give me real enjoyment, God knows we it these days!

[@kaylew108]

Wasn't hiding his stroke and inability to run the country a violation of law and the vice presidents legal right to take the lead and do his job? All those involved, including the first lady would today be indicted on some charges I'm sure.

[@1957eberhart]

yea right look at tRUMP

[@almostfm]

The thing is, until the 25th Amendment, there was no clear guidance on how or even if removing him from office due to disability was possible. And what would happen if, some time after removing him, he had recovered enough to resume his duties. And with the state of medicine 100 years ago, what happened in Wilson's case was unusual. Back then, it was rare to have a condition that left you essentially permanently incapacitated but alive. You either recovered from a condition, or you died-there wasn't much middle ground.

[@mimieddy2673]

My cousins aunt Florence Vevia was his nurse. She refused to speak about it.

[@dennisshoffner5201]

What a great synopsis of the events of 1919! Obviously assembling this short snippet of all the events into a single episode was a huge undertaking! This was a scholarly work that appears to assemble all the key events accurately and fairly. Frankly I haven’t thought about these events in many years, but they certainly seem appropriate now. Thanks so much for all the time and effort necessary to put this together.

[@Etherman7]

Wilson: only got in office thanks to a stubborn fight over a technical 3rd term. Also Wilson: Divided the vote by stubbornly fighting for a 3rd term

[@oliverlane9716]

With Trump's diagnosis this is quite a coincidental and relevant story.

[@ruth80809]

I know, right?

[@erictroxell715]

Thankfully Trump will be fine but yes indeed amazing timing and coincidence. I'm a history teacher too n studied this subject. Very interesting!!

[@trj1442]

I'm apolitical but I think Biden is more of a concern.

[@glhmedic]

Heinrich Himmler user name says it all

[@dawnyockey1475]

I would have to say that history is repeating itself with the Democratic Party, trying to put a man in office who clearly has dementia. As for Trump, he doesn’t even have symptoms and there are several treatments. He will just have to be quarantined for a couple of weeks. As for Wilson, thank God we never ended up in the globalists League of Nations! NATO is bad enough and his federal reserve crap needs to go too!

[@franklinarchambault-ik5xg]

The fourteen points of nothing they did nothing to prevent world war two when you had the French bent on revenge

[@robertdeen8741]

Just wanted to say thank you once again. My only complaint about your channel is I'd like more content more often. It seems the only history the young folks know is what they learn from Hollywood movies. We need more people like you and more people watching.

[@sevenb4710]

Yeah i’m gettin high on thc (the history guy obviously)

[@claycountybrian5645]

GOOD one! I never noticed that before. 4 thumbs up! oh, wait the history cat?

[@justonemori]

thc squared, try it!

[@gregorsamsa3016]

Well I'm in California and legally getting high from the THC found in the marijuana I'm smoking. ;)

[@sevenb4710]

Rusty Shackelford damn it. Foiled again. Good catch!

[@patrickolaughlin6027]

Puff , puff , pass...

[@DEXWrecksOfficial]

With Trump being diagnosed with COVID-19 last night and Fox News (State TV) running their propaganda about how absolutely healthy the president is, this video's timing is uncanny

[@dslancas8]

Funny no I think this is uncanny but for Biden

[@ChessQuizToday]

We were not leaderless. We are a free people! With 3 branches of government. Our founders were wise.

[@joeyjamison5772]

The Constitution is bigger than ANY person.

[@Franciscasieri]

Living now, in what the founding Fathers conceived a mere 220 years ago. We enjoy it every day without ever recognizing the memory of these great men. This does not go unnoticed here.

[@haroldchinsolo8774]

Wow.. good timing History Guy... love your channel

[@ShortAcres]

Have you reviewed the health of Ronald Reagan while in office? If so please share a link.

[@jacqueshickley]

I always thought Jan Smuts was the brainchild of the League of Nations. Great video. Have a awesome day.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Jacques Hickley fair point. Jan Smuts was an early supporter and submitted one of three competing plans.

[@toddbowles8201]

First disagreement with you. Wilson gave the public impression that he didn’t want to go to war. He was planning to go long before we went. He wanted it, but knew it was not politically popular.

[@leonst.7471]

Wilson was a bad president.

[@Strothy2]

bad maybe but still you know...

[@katieandkevinsears7724]

Second most racist on my list. Only less racist than Jackson.

[@stevemasterson7776]

Literally the worst

[@jamestheotherone742]

He was a man of his time. In his time, he was a progressive liberal. You (all) are making the mistake of judging someone with your contemporary sensibilities instead of his true context.

[@Claytone-Records]

Not the last bad president.

[@JBRCLY]

Sometimes I literally tear up a bit during the closing statement. Loves me some History Guy n Gal!

[@ianbartlett8630]

On a recent edition of Radiolab about the Spanish flu a whole section was devoted to Wilson catching the flu and that being the cause of his failure to overrule Clémenceau's desire to punish Germany.... ultimately with the same outcome. I'm confused now as you made no mention of this.

[@howtubeable]

Radiolab plays fast and loose with the facts. And obviously, they are biased towards the extreme left. I wouldn't trust them as a reliable source.

[@kph220]

Nearly 3K views in 35 minutes after posting. Your big time THG !

[@bigdpurser]

What are the odds that this gets published on the same day that it is amount that Donald Trump tested positive for covid-19

[@noisno.6512]

The more things change, the more they stay the same. leaks

[@justina249]

Good Cinderella song

[@georgemckenna462]

With the oldest candidates ever in the current election geriatrics plays a significant role.

[@jimbob3332]

what do people swinging on ropes and doing backflips have to do with anything?

[@jimmym3352]

One is probably going to have dementia in a year, the other will die of stroke in a year. Jorgenson gets my vote. There needs to be a 70 year old age limit. This is ridiculous.

[@sunshinecoolwater3960]

Regardless of politics, I think there should be term limits on elected offices, appointments and an age limit for candidates.

[@GM-tv5fj]

@@jetstream6389 We are essentially a single party system that openly serves the wealthy and connected, with a little window dressing to give the american people a feeling of choice in their government. THG is giving strong clues to our future by our link with the past, although this does require deeper thought.

[@earlyriser8998]

wow! well done with Trump having Covid.....which he will recover from..immune to future illness

[@jamestheotherone742]

BTW, Trump has tested positive for COVID-19 today.

[@jamestheotherone742]

@wargent99 Go look up the word "sardonic".

[@vicc7409]

Wilson apparently came down with the Spanish Flu while negotiating the Treaty of Versailles.

[@johnvaleanbaily4859]

Thanks for the explanation HG... but on a higher level, foreign policy in the US sometimes doesn't really work. A president determines foreign policy and then congress refutes it. That's a pointless exercise. A better system would be to come to a foreign policy direction with congress and the executive in agreement... before announcing it ...!

[@yippie21]

Ah, but Wilson was a progressive. This was the rage of the time. The mainline politicians in the US at the time... were decidedly NOT. Ergo, top-down, PR driven and ultimately passed by the thinnest margin and with a President that was incapacitated.

[@AlphaGeekgirl]

Then? Than foreign? An foreign? A foreign Not very good for your credibility if you can’t

[@johnvaleanbaily4859]

@@AlphaGeekgirl Can't what - finish a sentence like you ? And read the whole thing again and maybe it will make sense... but... no probably not. I changed some words for you... make it easier to understand... they're smaller words.

[@johnvaleanbaily4859]

@@yippie21 Thank you for that. I thought that might be the case, but don't know enough about Wilson. Appreciated.

[@markgarin6355]

Shenanigans..... Ah...keeping the peace, even if we have to go to war....to maintain it.

[@lightbox617]

I had friends who were honored to attend "Woody Wilson" at Princeton. One of the actually worked in his old office. My understanding is that "Woody Wilson" may be renamed. Not because of this little quirk in history but because of his long history or racism, mysaginy disregard for individual human rights. I live in Newark , NJ and I'm seriously close to the concept of institutional racism. It is here and it is unrelenting

[@jamesmiller4184]

And , , , what of the absence of any mention of gray eminence, "advisor" Edward Mandel House in the saga? Hmm??

[@matthewpoplawski8740]

AS ALWAYS THE HISTORY GUY, AN EXCELLENT VIDEO!! I knew about this episode (or thought I knew) of Woodrow Wilson. DEFINITELY gave me a history lesson about certain aspects that I wasn't aware of. I'm grateful for your slant about this story. BTW, two things about Warren Harding: #1-TEAPOT DOME; #2-His replacement of the word NORMALITY by the word(WHICH IT ISN'T) NORMALCY.😖😖😖😖😖😖

[@scottsinclair366]

Very good video. I saw a documentary once, although I can't recall the channel, where the historian said Mrs. Wilson was practically president for those 18 months, claiming every executive decision had to come through her as she wouldn't allow people to see President Wilson.

[@howtubeable]

Yes, that's a very popular narrative. It's probably not true.

[@BigSupremePacHamster]

Winston Churchill had a stroke in the 1950s during his second term as PM which was also covered up!

[@wholeNwon]

His neurologist was Lord Brain.

[@alitlweird]

If they never told anybody... then how did you find out about it? 🤨

[@rbsmith3365]

I never knew that.... He was overweight. Drinking. And smoked cigars until 90.

[@Charles8777-od4kj]

​@@rbsmith3365 Look at his medical history He suffered 8 strokes.

[@MrBaousu]

Boer steamroller 🇿🇦......brings it back to africa

[@CrazyUncleChris]

At the end of every episode I want to applaud.

[@BELCAN57]

A very "interesting" and complex man and politician. Wilson is both loved as a peacemaker and disliked as a racist of his generation. His life and work could fill volumes. Well done HG!

[@fgb3126]

Let's keep the red herring of racism, so beloved of certain people today, out of this.

[@kdrapertrucker]

Peacemaker? He was a warmonger, there was no real reason for the U.S. to get involved in WWI. He was a racist and a warmonger. And revived the Klu Klux Klan from the dustbin of history. Wilson was one of the worst scoundrels to ever sit in the oval office, even his league of nations failed because many Americans of the day recognized it was totalitarian organisation with the goal of one totalitarian world government. The current United Nations and it's myrid abuses and crimes is a built in feature.

[@Strothy2]

The comment section is gonna become toxic so fast.... disable them on this video... we don't need political discussion here we are here for HISTORY!

[@bicyclebookster6510]

History and politics are inseparable, if we are to learn from it.

[@jamestheotherone742]

The video is about politics so... no.

[@shawnr771]

You dont give THG's audience enough credit.

[@dougstubbs9637]

Chech our ‘Peacemaking. 1919’, Harold Nicolson, 1933 , University Paperback Reprinted 1967, SBN 416 68720 2/ 49. 1.2. Complete story of Wilsons’ Stroke had on the Paris Peace Conference. Eye opening, sometimes shocking. Dreadful knock on effects. Hindsight is always 20/20.

[@marymoore3585]

If it wasn't Hitler, it would have been Mussolini or Stalin... WWII would have happened no matter what we did.

[@billf6873]

Italy and Mussolini were never strong enough to have been able to start a world war. Italy had a difficult time in Ethiopia and the Germans had to help them in the Balkans. It would have been a short regional war if Italy was the only belligerent.

[@marymoore3585]

@@billf6873 makes sense. Would we not have been obligated to fight, had we joined the League of Nations? Of course it would have been a shorter war, but still possible.

[@annebradley6086]

On 10/2/1919 - Woodrow Wilson had a severe stroke and nobody knew. For 17 months he was incapacitated. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6XFlKCQnKZkn9U

[@tomaszyeager6654]

“The nation was essentially leaderless for 17 critical months; the longest Presidential disability in U.S. history.” Not counting, of course, the current one.

[@conveyor2]

okay comrade

[@tomaszyeager6654]

Duffy Bordeaux OK, Boomer.

[@tomaszyeager6654]

Duffy Bordeaux The fact that we’ve been without a competent President for nearly four years hurts all of us, yes.

[@ApemanMonkey]

Longest disability in presidential history? Surely we're approaching nearly 4 years already at the moment? 😉

[@felixar90]

4:15 The whole world must learn of our peaceful ways... By force!

[@rufust.firefly2474]

What irony! 101 years ago today, October 2nd 20/20, President Trump has. Covid-19 .

[@kirkmorrison6131]

Why don't you cover his original view of the Constitution as a living document and the creation of the Federal Reserve

[@stevenwiederholt7000]

Also locking up German-Americans in camps during WWI.

[@jordaneggerman4734]

And American exceptionalism, South American banana republics, and Lost Cause revisionism. Wilson was the president that should have never been. It was a race between Taft and Roosevelt, and Teddy just couldn't leave well enough alone.

[@jordaneggerman4734]

@Joe Duke wow, really? Got any proof on that one, there, bucko?

[@rutabagasteu]

@Joe Duke Dang. That is incredibly funny.

[@jordaneggerman4734]

@Joe Duke cute. In other words, you have none. You have no idea how my beliefs have changed/adapted over the course of my life, so the fact that you would assume, 1) I was born before the cutoff, and wasn't forced to wait until the year I turned 6, despite being able to read and write the year prior, and, 2) that I've been a Democrat since Kindergarten, just completely decimates any point you're going to make. But please, by all means, give me some reddit forum link. I'm interested to know why you think all Kindergarten teachers are Marxist.

[@RAMontheRoad]

You mention his exhausting work negotiating the Treaty of Versailles. Did he not also have a very severe case of the flu at that time as well? Did he really ever recover from that episode?

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Robert McCormick that is a fair question. Wilson did contract influenza in France. Some argue it impacted the treaty negotiations. He did recover from the flu- he was not suffering from the illness when he returned to America, but it likely physically weakened him, and that would have been one of Grayson’s concerns. There has been some speculation that the episode in France may have been a stroke, and not flu. But that is largely discounted. It is unlikely that the bout with the flu and the stroke were directly related.

[@KManwarren]

101 years later to the day our POTUS and FLOTUS have tested positive for COVID...sketchy timing. Praying they recover quickly and experience few symptons. I hope the best for them because they are human beings, and if they are doing well, the nation I love is doing well. No matter who's in office, #prayforthepresident .

[@menone8532]

Guess joe doesn't have to worry about another debate.

[@ryanhenak]

Incredible timing with Trump contracting covid-19. The image of trump on a regulator would be worth a million dollars.

[@markmichal2952]

The similarities to President Biden, and Dr. Jill Biden is scary..

[@Momar-o5b]

Shh, there be a lot of lefties here that will be offended.

[@brittoncooper1251]

Oh man, the timing of this coming today of all days is... uncanny.

[@TexasTimelapse]

Biden seems like he's on an infinite stroke loop.

[@whyuhatan]

Yeah history definitely has a sense of humor

[@alainarchambault2331]

Same with Trump, if the virus gets to his brain I doubt it wouldn't need to work very hard to disable it.

[@davidb6576]

@@alainarchambault2331 It'll almost certainly improve it - can't go anywhere from a flatline but up...

[@libertyprime619]

Everything bad that happened in the past 100 years is because of Woodrow wilson

[@centredoorplugsthornton4112]

Wilson's stroke. FDR's congestive heart failure. Eisenhower's heart attack. Kennedy's Addison disease and back injuries. Johnson's gall bladder operation, of which he showed the scar to put down rumors he had a heart attack.

[@ShinobiHOG]

You sir, have impeccable timing.....

[@PastorSloan]

So interesting now given the questions about President Biden.

[@josephpicogna6348]

Thank you as always very well done. You are the first person that I’ve ever heard present on this topic that acknowledge that it was TR who first spoke of a league of peace. Given Wilson’s distain for TR, I’ve always thought it remarkable that he was quick to use a good idea from a predecessor

[@tonysmith7863]

Sounds like what’s happening today

[@peternakitch4167]

Using broader US history as a guide, you are also leaderless now too and for longer than 17 months. As to Wilson, history has been mixed in its appraisal of him, some have been positive and some much less so. To be fair to Wilson he wasn't solely responsible for Versailles, but he takes some of the collective responsibility as one of the "big four". I do agree that if he'd been fit and well he may have got the treaty approved, but even if passed Versailles would have remained a toxic timebomb.

[@Tingobill]

Funny how history works. Could not have been a more relevant History Guy posting than today in 2020.

[@Momar-o5b]

Now that’s a “funny how history works” comment 🤣

[@fredricunderhill204]

Sweet Christmas! 100 years with another Vice President from Indiana ! This was prepared over the past week or maybe weeks ago. Thank you for adding the history.

[@jamesclendon4811]

Dan Quayle was from Indiana. Does that mean anything?

[@DonHavjuan]

The treaty of versaille - the document which caused WW2.

[@bitsaurus]

I did a report in my college history class on PWW's 14 points. Got a B. I was satisfied...

[@jaycarine21]

Yeah right trump will have a stroke predictive programming

[@mtnvalley9298]

Excellent presentation. Thanks for your efforts.

[@jonkline709]

Wilson along with France , britan are just as much to blame for ww2. That treaty they gave to Germany all but guaranteed a 2nd world war. The League of Nations did not do anything to stop ww2.

[@JamesHawkins54]

I reached a milestone today; I have watched ALL of your videos! I can say for sure I have enjoyed and learned something from each of them. Thanks.

[@alexhayden2303]

W.W. was influenced by by Col. House!

[@TreeLBollingTreeMan]

Yes indeed!

[@oldgysgt]

The League of Nations was a weak debating society that never had the power to stop conflicts. If America had joined that organization, it would have changed nothing!

[@johnallen7807]

And they seriously want Joe Biden for another term???

[@user-mv9tt4st9k]

Fascinating story, clearly presented. 🙂

[@juliebarnett9812]

So, I surmise from this, and other pivotal events in our history that the American people have been hoodwinked for decades. This is not the first time, by far.

[@katieandkevinsears7724]

Fun fact: After his stroke, Wilson was a better president.

[@MatthewCobalt]

The moment he died, he got even better at being President.

[@katieandkevinsears7724]

@@MatthewCobalt Amen! Wilson is the worst POTUS of the 20th century.

[@johnmat4678]

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[@redjirachi1]

With his stroke and the Spanish Flu it's surprising that he managed to outlive the next president

[@Eric_Hutton.1980]

WILSOOOON

[@ahkarsmith4691]

Another amazing coincidence and it couldn’t be more topical.

[@franknicholson6108]

Such a very interesting episode. I wish I knew my dad better he lived through WW1 as a Veteran. Thanks for this episode.

[@michaeldaisson5575]

Kinda weird, Today we find our current president with some potential life-threatening illness. Is this how history repeats?

[@wongo1665]

HOW TIMELY

[@georgemckenna462]

THG insight's. This one is down right eerie!

[@BigMamaDaveX]

@Sheldon Robertson What do the Cohens have to do with this? Please explain.

[@HaleXF11]

@Chris_Wooden_Eye Oh you missed it? He has the "hoax" virus.

[@RyanB.-pk5qj]

Hale-XF11 he has very minor symptoms and access to the best healthcare in the world. Dont be stupid

[@MI_Prepper]

I bet his stroke had a lot to do with why the American intervention in the Russian Civil War was still going on until 1920.

[@canuckloyalist4681]

So Nancy R wasn't the first.

[@MentoringGrowingLeaders]

Very timely with Trump testing positive with Covid-19

[@mercator79]

Once again, recalling timely appropriate history that deserves to be remembered. Thank you

[@jjames3793]

wow this is ironic timing.. I had only first heard of president Wilson having a stoke and his wife taking over some of the dutys for him earlier today. before I seen this video in my subscription list on utube.

[@coreys2686]

The largest cause of WWII is the thirst for vengeance on the part of French and Allied powers at the end of the war.