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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Woodrow Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Wilson intended the Fourteen Points as a means toward ending the war and achieving an equitable peace for all the nations.
		Wilson suffered a stroke and was seriously incapacitated his final year in office, although the extent of his disabilities was kept from the public until after his death.
		In 1921, Wilson and his second wife Edith Bolling Galt Wilson retired from the White House to a home in the Embassy Row section of Washington, D.C. Wilson died there on February 3, 1924.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/wo/Woodrow_Wilson (821 words)

	Edith Bolling Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edith Bolling Galt Wilson (October 15, 1872 – December 28, 1961), second wife of Woodrow Wilson, was First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921.
		As one historian, Phyllis Levin, a former reporter for the New York Times, wrote, Edith Wilson was "a woman of narrow views and formidable determination" and blamed her for numerous diplomatic failures that occurred during her husband's incapacitation.
		Wilson left her home to the National Trust for Historic Preservation to be made into a museum honoring her husband.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edith_Bolling_Wilson (933 words)

	Biography of Edith Wilson
		Descendant of Virginia aristocracy, she was born in Wytheville in 1872, seventh among eleven children of Sallie White and Judge William Holcombe Bolling.
		Edith Wilson submerged her own life in her husband's, trying to keep him fit under tremendous strain.
		Wilson returned to campaign for Senate approval of the peace treaty and the League of Nations Covenant.
	www.whitehouse.gov /history/firstladies/ew28-2.html (436 words)

	American President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Edith Bolling Wilson, Woodrow Wilson's second wife, is sometimes described as America's first woman President because of the role she played after the President's massive stroke in October 1919.
		When Wilson decided, in the late summer of 1919, to travel across the country speaking in support of the League of Nations, Edith worried that his health was too frail to stand the strain.
		Edith Wilson never intended to usurp her husband's power nor to become the "first woman President." As she told Wilson's doctor, "I am not thinking of the country now, I am thinking of my husband." But in seeking to protect the man she loved, she did in fact assume a major political role.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/woodrowwilson/firstlady/email.html (776 words)

	Edith Bolling Galt Wilson Biography (U.S. First Lady) — Infoplease.com
		Edith Bolling Galt Wilson was the second wife of Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States.
		He died in 1908 and Edith assumed control of the business; she found a capable manager to run things and proceeded to live the life of a well-off socialite, traveling to Europe and buzzing around Washington in an electric car.
		Wilson then took over "routine" presidential duties through the end of the president's term, strictly controlling his contact with cabinet members and making sure the public did not discover the extent of her husband's illness.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/edithwilson.html (332 words)

	Woodrow Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1856 to Reverend Dr. Joseph Ruggles Wilson and Janet Woodrow.
		Wilson grew up in Augusta, Georgia and always claimed that his earliest memory was of hearing that Abraham Lincoln had been elected and that a war was coming.
		Woodrow Wilson came of age in the decades after the Civil War, when Congress was supreme - "the gist of all policy is decided by the legislature" - and corruption rampant.
	www.gogoglo.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/w/wo/woodrow_wilson.html (2747 words)

	President Woodrow Wilson History: Edith Wilson \| American President Sourcebook
		Edith Wilson grew up from being a girl who did not leave her hometown until she was twelve to become a world traveler, successful businesswoman, and influential first lady.
		Wilson was born Edith Bolling in Wytheville, Virginia, on October 15, 1872.
		Edith took control of her husband's business and promoted one of the firm's assistants, longtime employee Henry Christian Bergheimer, to manage the firm with her.
	www.bookrags.com /history/president-woodrow-wilson/03.html (605 words)

	sociology - Woodrow Wilson
		Wilson was president of the American Political Science Association from 1910 to 1911.
		Wilson was able to narrowly win reelection in 1916 by picking up many votes who had gone with Roosevelt and Eugene V. Debs in 1912.
		Wilson was an early automobile enthusiast and while president, he took daily rides to calm himself, a hallmark behavior of modern adults with Attention Deficit Disorder.
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Woodrow_Wilson (2880 words)

	History's Women
		Edith Bolling was born in Western Virginia in October 1872, the daughter of a successful, popular lawyer/judge and she grew up in a richly cultured environment with loving attention from parents and grandparents.
		Wilson felt that there was nothing to her claim but feared that even her lies about her alleged romance with him might expose Edith to malicious gossip.
		In December, 1918 Wilson and Edith and their party sailed for Europe for a tour and for victory celebrations and then to Paris for the Peace Conference where Wilson was to present his Fourteen Points and plan for the peace treaty he hoped would establish the new League of Nations.
	www.historyswomen.com /1stWomen/edithwilson.html (2043 words)

	USA-Presidents.Info - Woodrow Wilson
		Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 — February 3, 1924) was the 28th (1913 - 1921) President of the United States.
		Woodrow Wilson was unanimously elected president of Princeton on June 9, 1902.
		Wilson sailed for Versailles on December 4, 1918 for the World War I peace talks, which made him the first US president to travel to Europe while in office.
	www.usa-presidents.info /wilson.htm (1025 words)

	Explore DC: Edith Wilson
		Edith and Woodrow were immediately attracted to one another and a romance developed rapidly.
		Wilson brought life and entertainment back to the White House but also proved to be an important asset to the president, working as his personal secretary.
		Edith, however, maintained that while she took over many routine duties and details of government, she did not initiate programs or make major decisions.
	www.exploredc.org /index.php?id=222 (298 words)

	Biography of Woodrow Wilson
		He was born in Virginia in 1856, the son of a Presbyterian minister who during the Civil War was a pastor in Augusta, Georgia, and during Reconstruction a professor in the charred city of Columbia, South Carolina.
		Wilson advanced rapidly as a conservative young professor of political science and became president of Princeton in 1902.
		Died: February 3, 1924 in Washington D.C. Married to Ellen Louise Axson Wilson and to Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
	www.whitehouse.gov /history/presidents/ww28.html (594 words)

	Amazon.fr : Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House: Livres en anglais: Phyllis Lee Levin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Wilson who had married the president one year after the untimely death of First Lady Ellen Wilson acted very much like a regent, restricting access to her sickly husband and issuing executive orders and directives that she presented at the time (and later, in her memoirs) as Wilson's own instructions.
		Wilson did indeed run the executive branch, if not the government as a whole, during Wilson's last year and a half in office.
		Wilson, it appears, violated both the public trust and the Constitution when she, posing as her husband's spokesperson, made executive branch policy.
	www.amazon.fr /Edith-Woodrow-Wilson-White-House/dp/0743211588 (740 words)

	First Lady Manuscripts
		This was correspondence concerning Edith Wilson's appointment to show Florence Harding the White House during the transition between Administrations.
		Wilson who wrote on behalf of her husband, reveals the relationship between the two men.
		Handwritten notes from EBW (4) to GMH, in which she is relaying the President's thoughts and ideas.
	www.firstladies.org /bibliography/manuscripts.aspx?bioid=29 (1997 words)

	Edith Bolling (Galt) Wilson
		Edith Bolling Galt, (1872-1961)was a southerner and the widow of a Washington jeweler.
		She and Wilson were married on December 18, 1915 after he suffered a severe personal loss on August 6, 1914, with the death of his first wife.
		Wilson jealously guarded her husband, and most likely feared that his resignation would sap his will to live.
	www.virtualology.com /virtualmuseumofhistory/hallofusa/usfirstladies/EDITHWILSON.COM (290 words)

	EDITH WILSON, OUR FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT?
		Wilson was a man "who depended on feminine companionship" and was very lonely without it.
		A descendant of Virginia aristocracy, Edith Bolling was born in Wytheville in 1872.
		She even accompanied Wilson to Paris when he went to attend the 1918 peace conference at the end of the war.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/presidents_and_first_ladies/27897 (438 words)

	Thomas Woodrow Wilson Was Born
		For his efforts, Wilson was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize, but the award was bittersweet.
		Wilson and his second wife, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson--who continued work in the White House when Wilson was ill--retired in Washington, D.C., in 1921.
		Wilson died three years later, and he is memorialized in many ways, including this 1918 footage of the president in a New York parade encouraging Americans to participate in Liberty Loans to support the war effort.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/reform/wilson_4 (166 words)

	PBS - American Experience: Woodrow Wilson \| Wilson- A Portrait
		Edith married the heir of a prominent jeweler in Washington, D.C. only after compelling him to endure a rather extended four-year courtship.
		Friendship with Woodrow Wilsonís cousin led to the widow Galtís chance meeting of the president in the White House.
		During the presidentís months-long convalescence, Edith imposed a self-described "stewardship" of the Presidency.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/wilson/portrait/wp_edith.html (486 words)

	Edith Wilson, First Lady
		Edith Bolling was born in Wytherville, Virginia on October 15, 1872.
		She met President Wilson on a visit to the White House in April 1915.
		Wilson's advisors were worried that his marrying so soon would hurt his political career.
	www.classroomhelp.com /lessons/FirstLadies/EBWilson.html (217 words)

	Edith Wharton - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Edith Wharton - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Wharton, Edith Newbold (1862-1937), American writer, known for her portraits of manners and mores at the end of the 19th century and beginning of...
		The 1905 publication of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth established the author as a prominent figure on the American literary scene.
	encarta.msn.com /Edith_Wharton.html (99 words)

	Dolley Madison, Lucretia Garfield, and Edith Wilson:Manuscript Division
		Edith Bolling Galt Wilson (1872-1961) [catalog record], the second wife of President Woodrow Wilson, is represented by a large collection (19,000 items; 1833-1961), most of which dates after her husband's death in 1924.
		Drafts of Edith's memoirs are noteworthy, as is her correspondence with political leaders, including other twentieth-century first ladies and feminist Carrie Chapman Catt.
		Besides materials relating to his wives, Wilson's papers are rich in documents concerning the women's suffrage campaign and passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, protective labor legislation, Progressive reform, and women's involvement in World War I and the pacifist movement.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/awhhtml/awmss5/madison.html (624 words)

	Edith Wilson
		Wilson sailed to France to bring “a just and lasting peace” to the world.
		Edith worked hand in hand with her husband to convince the leaders of the Versailles Conference to accept Wilson’s Fourteen Points peach treaty, which included the establishment of League of Nations.
		Wilson’s opponents in Congress and the press claimed the United States was a “petticoat government” run by an “acting ruler.” Yet some journalists admired her, claiming, “No suggestion is heard that Mrs.
	accelerateu.org /assessments/2001Ela8/EWilson.htm (988 words)

	Edith Bolling (Galt) Wilson
		Before Edith married the president, her first husband (Norman Galt) was the owner of a jewelry store.
		However, On October 2, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson suffered with a sudden stroke, and from that day his doctor and his wife decided to keep one of the biggest secrets that the white house had ever known.
		This is when Edith took over the role of the President and as Wilson said when he announced the engagement " whatever the president's malady" which meant whatever the lady wanted is what she received and that's what occured in the following years.
	www.library.csi.cuny.edu /dept/history/lavender/386/egalt.html (818 words)

	The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library: About Us: Our History
		A private, nonprofit corporation, the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation was chartered by the Commonwealth of Virginia on June 27, 1938.
		The drive to purchase the Manse and restore the historic house was led by a group of distinguished Virginia and national leaders, guided by Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, the former President's widow.
		The Woodrow Wilson Museum opened in the spring of 1990 as the nation's only facility with professionally researched and designed interpretive galleries exploring the life and public service of the 28th President.
	www.woodrowwilson.org /about/about_show.htm?doc_id=428368 (495 words)

	The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library: Learn at the Library: Research
		Additionally, there are personal letters from Woodrow Wilson spanning the years 1890 to 1924, with the bulk of the correspondence falling between 1913-1921.
		The correspondence of Edith Bolling Galt Wilson spans the years 1924-1961, with most of the pieces falling between 1939-1961.
		The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Archives houses of collection of over 2400 photographs, which depict both Woodrow Wilson and his life and times.
	www.woodrowwilson.org /learn/learn_show.htm?doc_id=321333 (238 words)

	Woodrow Wilson, 1917
		March 4, 1917 fell on a Sunday, so Wilson was sworn in privately on that day in the President's Room in the U.S. Capitol by Chief Justice Edward D. White.
		Edith Bolling Galt Wilson was the first First Lady to accompany the President both to and from the Capitol
		Woodrow Wilson and Edith Wilson riding to Inauguration, 1917 (Library of Congress)
	inaugural.senate.gov /history/chronology/wwilson1917.htm (123 words)

	EDITH WILSON
		Edith Wilson, was born Edith Bollingin Wytheville, Virginia, the daughter of William Holcombe and Sallie White Bolling.
		Edith was often a guest at the White House as well as the Presidential yacht.
		Edith devoted her time to war related work, assisting her husband with the many problems.
	www.aboutfamouspeople.com /article1076.html (367 words)

	A Moment in Time: First Ladies: Edith Bolling Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Wilson was distraught, but he threw himself into his work and bit by bit emerged from depression.
		Edith Wilson became the de facto president, governing what he would read, who he would see and what decisions would be laid before him.
		Ironically, for being a fierce opponent of women's voting rights, Edith Wilson wielded more power than any woman up to that point in the history of the United States government.
	ehistory.osu.edu /world/amit/display.cfm?amit_id=1953 (377 words)

	Woodrow Wilson House, Washington, DC's only Presidential Museum
		The Woodrow Wilson House in the heart of Embassy Row is opening the doors to many of Washington’s Embassies and distinguished private residences for the 23d Annual Kalorama House and Embassy Tour on Sunday, September 16, 2007 from 12:00 - 5:00 p.m.
		Tour participants will be able to preview the Woodrow Wilson House's exhibition celebrating the 90th-anniversary of the creation of the White House China Room by Edith Wilson.
		Congressional Resolution Honors Woodrow Wilson House and WILSON 150.
	www.woodrowwilsonhouse.org /index.asp?section=calendar&file=calendar&ID=11 (610 words)

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