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| Name | 2nd October 1919: US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke while in office |
| Video Uploader | Video From HistoryPod |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 01-10-2018 19:00:03 |
| Video Discription | Following the conclusion of the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919, Wilson returned to the United States. There he found stiff opposition to the treaty from Republican and Irish Catholic Democratic senators. Determined to convince the public of the importance of ratifying the treaty and joining the League of Nations, the President embarked on a national speaking tour at the start of September. Wilson was exhausted before the presidential train even departed Washington yet stuck to the punishing schedule for 22 days before his private secretary, Joseph Tumulty, announced the tour’s cancellation on 26 September. Although he publicly blamed ‘a nervous reaction in his digestive organs’, the President had in fact been suffering from splitting headaches and uncontrollable twitching in his facial muscles. Wilson returned to the White House to rest on 28 September but, just four days later, fell unconscious in his private quarters. Although the exact details are unclear, within a few minutes his wife Edith had called for his doctor, Cary T. Grayson. Having attended the patient, Grayson is reported to have remarked, ‘My God, the president is paralysed.’ The stroke left Wilson paralysed on his left-hand side, and with a visual impairment. With the President confined to his bed, Mrs Wilson began what she referred to as her ‘stewardship’. For a number of months she oversaw all communication to and from her husband, giving her unprecedented control over the direction of both domestic and foreign policy. Edith Wilson has consequently been referred to by her biographer as the first female president. |
| Category | Education |
| Tags | woodrow wilson | stroke | edith wilson | president wilson | usa | treaty of versailled | league of nations |
