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“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.” ― Woodrow Wilson (Perhaps he was ordered to do all those horrible things out of fear for himself / loved ones.)
Except he was from NJ. Democrats have always danced with the devil to maintain power, they do it now and they did it then. The most vile party is history.
“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interest. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.” Woodrow Wilson
On his deathbed he would regret all the horrible things he did. Far too late. He had no humility until death. The opposite of what God wants from us humans
I absolutely agree with the comments. In 2024, with the hindsight that we have Woodrow Wilson would have been a bad president for today’s times. But he wasn’t President today, he was president well over 100 years ago. What he did was remarkable for his time. I know many of you have never studied it in school, but this is what history is about. Sure, in June 2024, he seems like a repulsive person. In today’s standards, he likely is. But by the standards of that day, and that time, he was a well respected diplomat, and World leader, who came up with the idea of a League Of Nations, 20+ years before the actual United Nations Unfortunately, or fortunately, we cannot change what has happened in the past. Woodrow Wilson and his times were what they were. We can learn from what happened in his times so that hopefully we don’t make the same mistakes again, but we can’t cancel the period in which he influenced the world. Again, that is wha history is all about. It’s not a pretty story in many cases, but it is what it is.
The criticism of him that I remember, when i had history class in school many years ago, was that he spent so much time in Europe, and little time in the United States. The League of Nations was a good and noble idea. History should give him credit for that. WW I was supposed to be the war to end all wars.
@@patland1762 I know history. History and time changes. Making good character decisions based off of morals don't. Anytime you accept bad morals decisions and pass them off as law or normalize the behavior, the civilization or society will be eventually destroyed.
"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit." - Woodrow Wilson. Wilson himself realized how awful the Federal Reserve Act was in his dying days, but this documentary praises it and glosses over how it was passed in the Senate two days before Christmas, with only a few Senators present.
Really has little to do with the Feds, those guys are private bankers. Jefferson had warned of the dangers of a centralized national banking system & Jackson opposed it with a passion. All I know is "American Dream" began turning into nightmare in the '70s.
Ah, the good 'ol Woody Wilson. As I begin watching this, the first thing I'm thinking about is how much of the *NOT* so good Woody Wilson will get talked about.
The crazy part about his decision is if the American people truly felt disgruntled about the federal policies about gov. oversight and central banking, then why do they continually support those policies today. This wasnt prez Wilsons decision but Americans alone. When will Americans begin to accountable for their own mistakes? And until we do we dont deserve the freedoms we've been so graciously given!
Super videos. Really enjoying the US presidents ones and the James Connolly episode was very informative. I'd love to see a Michael Collins episode. Ireland's greatest man. 😊
No, it wasn't Wilson's fault. The European Entente powers would've slammed Germany with even more punitive measures in the wake of the war if he wasn't involved. Though it didn't mean much in the grand scheme, Wilson actually convinced some of the delegates to scale back those various retribution clauses in the Treaty of Versailles. The League of Nations WAS an excellent idea and the precursor to the UN, but they didn't give themselves enough power to take active steps to curb the possibility of a war. Their lack of collective power combined with the Treaty of Versailles all set the stage for WWII.
@@Loe_Jistyes it was. The reason we got into world war I in the first place was because of Firestone Henry Ford and the other businessmen who had foreign interests.
@@Loe_JistIndeed. Georges Clemenceau once said that Wilson bored him with his Fourteen Points on reconstruction of the European order after the war, as “God Almighty has only ten”.
1:00:55 "on the issue of the size of reparations that Germany was expected to pay, Wilson proposed a modest sum of some 30 million while Clemenceau and his British counterpart David Lloyd George advocated much larger sums. Wilson wanted to show some mercy to the defeated nations."
First people forget that America is a democracy so he have to ask the American people do they want this certain things like the treaty of a side or the or the League of Nations is the American people decision because they don't want to vote him in and they can also vote him out if they don't like the way our president do things in the next four years we can vote him out
If Wilson wasn't such a squalid and overt white supremacist (back when this was still a thing), his name would still be up there. The rest of his agenda and legacy are unproblematic to America's elites.
In 1919 Ho Chi Minh made a special appeal to Wilson so that the USA would help Vietnam achieve independence. Woodrow Wilson refused to take Ho Chi Minh seriously or even respond.
This is why I love the Internet. Ho was a 20-something year old nobody in 1919. It was to Eisenhower he wrote in the 1950s asking for help, to no avail.
@JohnSmithNadowa what, a 20-something year old expat living in France is entitled to an an answer from an American president? Ha Ha. The Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam 30 years later is a different story. Leave Wilson out of that, he was dead.
Unfortunately Woodrow Wilson has been overshadowed by FDR but this doesn't detract from the proposition that he started the country on its path to the creation of the administrative state.
In spite of Wilson's glaring "Black" Stain on his Presidency, as far as world history goes, always considered the World Wars a making of European snobbery and hubris. Wilson had foresight and courage that almost bordered on naivete when he introduced his, 14 Points. After saving their bacon by winning the War, he was summarily pushed aside and crumpled under that malignancy which ruled Europe for centuries. Is my opinion payback finally arrived big time with Eisenhower crushing the "Powers" of Europe, England and France, when he squashed their (1956) Suez Crisis, giving them both a good swat on the nose before sending them scurrying in shame all the way home.
I won't say anything for or against him (yes I actually do have a position, but it isn't necessary to speak it), I will just say that he would be perfectly happy with where the country has gone since his Presidency, and where it is right now. He was a man that can understand that you need a few bumps in the road if you want an excuse to tear it up, move it, and repave it......
He is considered an absolute hero, a liberator, for the small nations of Europe. Streets and institutions are named after him, he is one of the few US presidents who is taught about in schools... For example, I just checked and he is the only American (both in North and South America) who has a street named after him in my hometown.
Ah, the good 'ol Woody Wilson. As I begin watching this, the first thing I'm thinking about is how much of the *NOT* so good 'ol Woody Wilson will get talked about.
His hatred of black people, who suffered so much with the Lynching that was going on back then, is second to none. He promised to do something to end lynching and did nothing. If he is in heaven, then send me downstairs. Eff him.
@@effewe2 Oh ffs. Income tax is a feature of every civilised country. Sure there's room for criticism on details but how else are basic services we all enjoy paid for.
Just a little clarification: Texas was not "conquered" by the US from Mexico. Texas fought a war of independence against Mexico in 1835 - 36 and became an independent nation from 1836 to 1845. Texas was then admitted to the US by treaty at the very end of 1845 and formally annexed into the US. The remaining states of the Southwest came into the US as a result of "conquest" but Texas did not.
Seeing a lot of ppl in the comments saying how bad he was as president. In short can anyone tell me why ? I’m British so I don’t have the same understanding as an American would
I really appreciate this video. He was a brillant individual, had many good policies which are intact today. He has my respect for thinking of the workers and poor. 1:16:22
It's crazy when you notice the birth to death years of everyone mentioned in this documentary: almost no one lived to see 60 years. Almost all died in their 50s, what is now considered later middle aged. And this is less than 100 years ago. Will we see an average adult live to 120 or longer in the next century?
Regardless of who the painting is of, you can tell he's British cause he talks like that. 16:30 he pronounces "sexual" as "sect-sual", like Woody was an ape in a nature documentary.
I've stood beside Wilson's crypt in the National Cathedral in DC. He DID accomplish many 'progressive' reforms in the U.S. and tried to form a world alliance that MIGHT have gained world peace, and maybe prevented WW2 if his opponents had agreed to it. It's true he had the poor opinions on race that were very common in his day, but he TRIED to do what he could. He was a far cry better than many (most?) politicians today.
@@Kruppt808 agreed. Debbs, Roosevelt, and Taft each had their flaws, but Wilson was a madman convinced of his own moral and intellectual superiority -- a far more dangerous and authoritarian character than the othe three.
If Wilson had resisted the temptation to become involved in the war, the brutal outcome of the conflict may well have led to a more lasting peace. His ego couldn't resist the limelight of the postwar talks.
@@ChuckHolland-i4b You are absolutely right about that, but I still think that it’s past time for that change. I think that Wilson is on the 1,000 Dollar Bill which should also be changed for the same reason.
America's economic weight was AS strong in 1918 AS that of all the Others combined. America Had the Power to decide what the Peace was to be Like. So America was responsible for what happened at Versailles.
I'm an FDR Democrat but Wilson had his head screwed on backwards. TR, Taft or Charles Evans Hughes would have been better choices as US President, Hughes in particular. Throwing a hand grenade into the map of Europe in 1918 with the phrase of "self determination" merely established a whole lot of countries that weren't nations and fell apart once Adolf came around. The old monarchies weren't that terrible when one saw what replaced them. Woodrow's arteriosclerosis hit his brain first.
Klansman on the Court In 1937 FDR appointed Alabama Senator Hugo Black to the Supreme Court. Black was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and built his career campaigning at Klan meetings. Black was well known for his anti-Catholic viewpoints. In Korematsu v. the United States, Black voted to uphold President Roosevelt's mass arrests and incarceration of Japanese men, women, and children based on race. President Roosevelt called Democrat Klansman Sen. Theodore Bilbo "a real friend of liberal government. Bilbo claimed himself to be "100 percent for Roosevelt...and the New Deal."[107] In a 1938 filibuster against anti-lynching legislation, Bilbo said on the Senate floor that the bill would “open the floodgates of hell in the South” by encouraging Black men to rape white women. Franklin Roosevelt nominated James F. Byrnes to the Supreme Court and was confirmed by the Democrat Senate in 1941. The NAACP opposed his confirmation in a telegram to the White House: “If Senator Byrnes at any time in his long public career failed to take a position inimical to the human and citizenship rights of 13 million American Negro citizens, close scrutiny of his record fails to reveal it.
Opposition to anti-lynching law Segregationist senators Tom Connally, Walter F. George, Richard Russell, Jr., and Claude Pepper filibustering the Wagner-Van Nuys Act, an anti-lynching bill, in 1938; all four were liberal New Dealers. Despite insistence by leftists that the Democrat opposition to civil rights legislation (including anti-lynching legislation) was exclusively from "conservative"/Southern Democrats, it's important to note that a 1937 anti-lynching bill passed the House with opposition from both the Southern bloc in addition to 15 Northern Democrats.[112] Of those who voted on the legislation by party, it got 96% support from Republicans and only 62% from Democrats. In late July 1937, Senate Democrats successfully tabled an anti-lynching effort (introduced by pro-civil rights DINO Royal S. Copeland) twice. On July 26, the Senate voted 41-34 to kill an anti-lynching amendment,[113] with the "Yeas" including future Supreme Court justice Hugo Black and future Vice President Alben Barkley. Over a dozen Northern Democrats voted with the Southern bloc to kill the amendment. 61% of Democrats voted in favor of tabling. Five days later, the majority of Senate Democrats (66% of them) voted yet again to kill the amendment in a 46-39 vote.
Wilson was an accidential President, who wouldnt have been elected by todays standards. 1) It would be more unlikely that The New Jersey party bosses would choose Wilson as their nominee, in 2024. They could see footage of Wilson on the internet. 2) Even if he won the Governorship, it would be unlikely that he'd get the nomination. Presidential Primaries would have a greater impact. Would Wilson's speaking skills come off as too condescending? Would Wilson's views on race be a hindrance to his nomination? 3) Could Wilson even get the nomination? The Democrats of 1912, had the infamous "two-thirds " rule, which is required for nominees. The Democrats of 2024, only required a simple majority of delegates. Speaker of the House Champ Clark had a simple majority of delegates in 1912. But, in an alternate 2024, that simple majority would get him the nomination. (An alternate 2024 would also give Clark, a strong support from Superdelegates. ) 4) Even if Wilson won the nomination, The Republicans would have had a more unified front. 2024 standards would have kept TR from being a candidate, because of the 22nd Amendment. (The 22nd Amendment came into effect in 1951.) TR would have likely supported Taft. But if the 22nd Amendment was not a factor, TR would have won the Republican Nomination, because of his victories in the primaries. Taft would have endorsed him. A unified Republican ticket would have the nominee with about 57 percent of the popular vote. The GOP nominee would have also won a majority of the Electoral College. (The only reason Wilson won the bulk of his Electoral Votes, in real timeline, outside the South, was because of the TR-Taft split in the popular votes.)
@DarthDread-oh2ne He couldn't win on a one-on-one match. Also, the Republicans had control of the White House for sixteen years. Other than the TR-Taft split (or fatigue of the Republicans being in charge for too long), were there any other factors that could have contributed to a Wilson victory?
Wilson's victory in 1912, along with Debbs finishing as high as 4th place, essentially sent a message to both political parties: don't split the vote. Don't break rank. Nominate a candidate and go all in. We're stuck with the two party system as it is today thanks to that election. You don't see serious 3rd party contenders because neither party's members break rank. Actual competition on the same political side gets suppressed. A rogue politician from one party running as a 3rd party candidate siphons votes from the main candidate. In that scenario, like in 1912, the other guy wins. Nowadays, people know how it works so they keep their party members in line.
I mean, “Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era” by Thomas C. Leonard really illustrates that the whole racism thing was hardly exclusive to this particular progressive and even rather common.
Well, it is fine that Wilson is called out for his obvious racism. But how about his disgraceful contribution (as a historian) to lending academic credibility to the 'lost cause' myth (that still plagues the controversies around the American Civil War)? And how about his responsibility for the 'red scare' of 1919 - leaving a toxic legacy of curtailing civil rights in the face of political hysteria? The latter is probably the most regrettable omission in this documentary.
Given the soviet union spent millions a year since 1920 trying to subvert American culture and politics, while sending trained agents to take job in middle management of Washington, papers, and Hollywood, it's not really a hysteria, is it?
@@andrewfrancis7272 Oh, Wilson was horrendously prejudiced even by early 20th century standards. You should not worry about that. And the 'lost cause' myth was always flying in the face of established historical facts, no matter the calendar year.
I find it interesting that a large degree of people are rendering opinions most of criticism woithout considering what were the political issues of the time. And applying his administration’s policies to the issues of today. Its insanity.
If you elect him it cant be a misfortune, its just stupid. Big chance there be stupid again in 2025. We are laughing oure asses of here in europe what a circus
The only thing I know about Woodrow Wilson is that Americans refuse to talk about him and you're not allowed to ask & probably more importantly, that Bart Simpson invented an alias using his photo and name 'Woodrow' responding to a personals ad placed by his teacher Edna Krabappel. Eager to listen hoping we'll hit these important points.
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“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
― Woodrow Wilson
(Perhaps he was ordered to do all those horrible things out of fear for himself / loved ones.)
I adore your voice ❤️
I'm have been surprised and a little puzzled at this renewed interest in Wilson, a man whose 2nd term ended over 100 yrs ago!😮
The Epitome of the old "Dixiecrat".
Overrated
Set Civil Rights back 50 years!
@@familykaplan1341that's depends
Except he was from NJ. Democrats have always danced with the devil to maintain power, they do it now and they did it then. The most vile party is history.
So today's dem, like joe bribem? Lol
“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interest. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.”
Woodrow Wilson
Avarice
@@SuperGreatSphinx jews
communist jews
On his deathbed he would regret all the horrible things he did. Far too late. He had no humility until death. The opposite of what God wants from us humans
@@matthewbigelow5096I don't even believe he regretted it. I think he was just scared of his fate.
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I have to say, you have the best biographies. If I want to know about someone, I go straight to your channel. Excellent production.
I absolutely agree with the comments. In 2024, with the hindsight that we have Woodrow Wilson would have been a bad president for today’s times. But he wasn’t President today, he was president well over 100 years ago. What he did was remarkable for his time. I know many of you have never studied it in school, but this is what history is about. Sure, in June 2024, he seems like a repulsive person. In today’s standards, he likely is. But by the standards of that day, and that time, he was a well respected diplomat, and World leader, who came up with the idea of a League Of Nations, 20+ years before the actual United Nations
Unfortunately, or fortunately, we cannot change what has happened in the past. Woodrow Wilson and his times were what they were. We can learn from what happened in his times so that hopefully we don’t make the same mistakes again, but we can’t cancel the period in which he influenced the world.
Again, that is wha history is all about. It’s not a pretty story in many cases, but it is what it is.
I disagree. Morals are Morals.
The criticism of him that I remember, when i had history class in school many years ago, was that he spent so much time in Europe, and little time in the United States. The League of Nations was a good and noble idea. History should give him credit for that. WW I was supposed to be the war to end all wars.
@@andrejamison2723 Time you learn some history. It will be good for you. Morals change with time, change drawmatically.
@@patland1762 I know history. History and time changes. Making good character decisions based off of morals don't. Anytime you accept bad morals decisions and pass them off as law or normalize the behavior, the civilization or society will be eventually destroyed.
And that's why it must be taught in the schools. Who wants to repeat some of this stuff.
"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit." - Woodrow Wilson. Wilson himself realized how awful the Federal Reserve Act was in his dying days, but this documentary praises it and glosses over how it was passed in the Senate two days before Christmas, with only a few Senators present.
In hindsight it was still a good thing it passed no matter what
@@memorymeme51why
No it wasn't.
sit down
Really has little to do with the Feds, those guys are private bankers. Jefferson had warned of the dangers of a centralized national banking system & Jackson opposed it with a passion. All I know is "American Dream" began turning into nightmare in the '70s.
Ah, the good 'ol Woody Wilson.
As I begin watching this, the first thing I'm thinking about is how
much of the *NOT* so good Woody Wilson will get talked about.
The crazy part about his decision is if the American people truly felt disgruntled about the federal policies about gov. oversight and central banking, then why do they continually support those policies today.
This wasnt prez Wilsons decision but Americans alone.
When will Americans begin to accountable for their own mistakes?
And until we do we dont deserve the freedoms we've been so graciously given!
He was a giant of his time. Complete with prejudices of hos time. He could have done more for black Americans but thats his story.
Woodrow Wilson's 14 points
Clemenceau said the Good Lord himself only had 10 .
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Super videos. Really enjoying the US presidents ones and the James Connolly episode was very informative. I'd love to see a Michael Collins episode. Ireland's greatest man. 😊
this man's policies helped lead to WW2.
No, it wasn't Wilson's fault. The European Entente powers would've slammed Germany with even more punitive measures in the wake of the war if he wasn't involved. Though it didn't mean much in the grand scheme, Wilson actually convinced some of the delegates to scale back those various retribution clauses in the Treaty of Versailles. The League of Nations WAS an excellent idea and the precursor to the UN, but they didn't give themselves enough power to take active steps to curb the possibility of a war. Their lack of collective power combined with the Treaty of Versailles all set the stage for WWII.
@@Loe_Jistyes it was. The reason we got into world war I in the first place was because of Firestone Henry Ford and the other businessmen who had foreign interests.
@@Loe_JistIndeed. Georges Clemenceau once said that Wilson bored him with his Fourteen Points on reconstruction of the European order after the war, as “God Almighty has only ten”.
1:00:55 "on the issue of the size of reparations that Germany was expected to pay, Wilson proposed a modest sum of some 30 million while Clemenceau and his British counterpart David Lloyd George advocated much larger sums. Wilson wanted to show some mercy to the defeated nations."
First people forget that America is a democracy so he have to ask the American people do they want this certain things like the treaty of a side or the or the League of Nations is the American people decision because they don't want to vote him in and they can also vote him out if they don't like the way our president do things in the next four years we can vote him out
The board of trustees at Princeton removed his name on campus in 2020. I wonder hoe many of todays politicians will meet the same!
If Wilson wasn't such a squalid and overt white supremacist (back when this was still a thing), his name would still be up there. The rest of his agenda and legacy are unproblematic to America's elites.
@@Jason-gg4lmwell you seem to be moonbat
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You do, poppet. You commented.
Toodles
Great President...
Why did Princeton remove his name ?
In 1919 Ho Chi Minh made a special appeal to Wilson so that the USA would help Vietnam achieve independence. Woodrow Wilson refused to take Ho Chi Minh seriously or even respond.
I bet Woodrow Wilson was thinking: "I don't care for a poor man's coolie," when reached out from Ho Chi Minh.
Bit America in the ass decades later.
This is why I love the Internet. Ho was a 20-something year old nobody in 1919. It was to Eisenhower he wrote in the 1950s asking for help, to no avail.
@@andrewwhite1968hes right, calm down
@JohnSmithNadowa what, a 20-something year old expat living in France is entitled to an an answer from an American president? Ha Ha.
The Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam 30 years later is a different story. Leave Wilson out of that, he was dead.
Unfortunately Woodrow Wilson has been overshadowed by FDR but this doesn't detract from the proposition that he started the country on its path to the creation of the administrative state.
How's that a good thing?
I still prefer FDR better. So is Coolidge
In spite of Wilson's glaring "Black" Stain on his Presidency, as far as world history goes, always considered the World Wars a making of European snobbery and hubris. Wilson had foresight and courage that almost bordered on naivete when he introduced his, 14 Points. After saving their bacon by winning the War, he was summarily pushed aside and crumpled under that malignancy which ruled Europe for centuries. Is my opinion payback finally arrived big time with Eisenhower crushing the "Powers" of Europe, England and France, when he squashed their (1956) Suez Crisis, giving them both a good swat on the nose before sending them scurrying in shame all the way home.
What a terrible president.
What a terrible person!
He will always be the gutless coward that sat back and excused Britain's actions in ireland.
@@MMerlyn91You are the dumbest person I have ever heard
@@MMerlyn91yeah right Versailles Treaty was a half baked treaty that directly led to WW2 breaking out but whatever stay in your ivory tower.....
@@MMerlyn91🤡
Federal reserve smh
I better remember him as one of the suspects in Heisenberg case.
❤Great documentary! Thanks for posting!❤
Booker T!!!!! Finally
I won't say anything for or against him (yes I actually do have a position, but it isn't necessary to speak it), I will just say that he would be perfectly happy with where the country has gone since his Presidency, and where it is right now. He was a man that can understand that you need a few bumps in the road if you want an excuse to tear it up, move it, and repave it......
He ,for me, was one of America's worst president list
Let’s not forget Jackson’s treatment of the natives
@@AJP_17omg I get so tired of hearing this sob story. That was the way of the world and it helped create our vast Nation.
@@goldentaco4970 Sob story,you need help
@@goldentaco4970yes so the flood of immigrants is the way of the world too so i dont want to hear any sob stories 😂😂😂
@@goldentaco4970 oh, so segregation is the way of the world now? You progressives never quit.
You would think someone with his means would have visited a dentist. The man had rotten teeth which probably led to his poor health.
Saint Apollonia
He is considered an absolute hero, a liberator, for the small nations of Europe. Streets and institutions are named after him, he is one of the few US presidents who is taught about in schools...
For example, I just checked and he is the only American (both in North and South America) who has a street named after him in my hometown.
His so called 'liberation' in Europe has given rise to the birth of one of the world most terrifying tyrant Adolf Hitler.
better listen to the Great war channel post WW1. See what those new liberated nations did to each other.
Good timing on this Bio!
Ah, the good 'ol Woody Wilson.
As I begin watching this, the first thing I'm thinking about is how
much of the *NOT* so good 'ol Woody Wilson will get talked about.
Presented well
Grand Wizard
Two words frightening in their accuracy
His hatred of black people, who suffered so much with the Lynching that was going on back then, is second to none. He promised to do something to end lynching and did nothing. If he is in heaven, then send me downstairs. Eff him.
And a democrat like bubba Clinton and crooked Hillary
He helped set the tone, destroying the American aborigine 😢
He started the "administrative bureaucracy of experts" that has been the downfall of the nation.
He should be reviled, and universally loathed.
Théodore Roosevelt Was Right When He All But Called Him Yellow
How so?
He was Bernard Baruch's boy
And the Income Tax. Ripping off hardworking Americans!
@@effewe2 Oh ffs. Income tax is a feature of every civilised country. Sure there's room for criticism on details but how else are basic services we all enjoy paid for.
Just a little clarification: Texas was not "conquered" by the US from Mexico. Texas fought a war of independence against Mexico in 1835 - 36 and became an independent nation from 1836 to 1845. Texas was then admitted to the US by treaty at the very end of 1845 and formally annexed into the US. The remaining states of the Southwest came into the US as a result of "conquest" but Texas did not.
A war where the USA did also fight on. If you look for a example in the current age, the Krim annexation of Russia is good example.
Seeing a lot of ppl in the comments saying how bad he was as president. In short can anyone tell me why ? I’m British so I don’t have the same understanding as an American would
Privately owned federal reserve act, owned(at least in part) by the same people who own the bank of England
Income tax, Federal Reserve, ...etc
Progressive socialist
He was a furry
Hitler would have admired woodrow wilson,he was truly obnoxious.
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I really appreciate this video. He was a brillant individual, had many good policies which are intact today. He has my respect for thinking of the workers and poor. 1:16:22
It's crazy when you notice the birth to death years of everyone mentioned in this documentary: almost no one lived to see 60 years. Almost all died in their 50s, what is now considered later middle aged. And this is less than 100 years ago. Will we see an average adult live to 120 or longer in the next century?
You can tell this guy is British. At 6:03 he mentioned Hamilton but shows a painting of Thomas Jefferson with Hamiltons name under it.
You need to look closer, since that is a famous painting of Hamilton. Its in the National Gallery in DC.
Even stevie wonder could tell its not Jefferson
Regardless of who the painting is of, you can tell he's British cause he talks like that. 16:30 he pronounces "sexual" as "sect-sual", like Woody was an ape in a nature documentary.
@@Gordon-hx8cp actually, the guys right. I googled it. I think the people who own the painting miss labels it because it’s clearly not Hamilton.
When a nation speaks against its greatest men and ideals,under false slogans ,it is doomed!
Damn the health deterioration in the lead up to his death made me think he was like 86 by the time he died 😂
if only it would have been before he was 5 instead of 67
I've stood beside Wilson's crypt in the National Cathedral in DC. He DID accomplish many 'progressive' reforms in the U.S. and tried to form a world alliance that MIGHT have gained world peace, and maybe prevented WW2 if his opponents had agreed to it. It's true he had the poor opinions on race that were very common in his day, but he TRIED to do what he could. He was a far cry better than many (most?) politicians today.
He was Bernard Baruch's boy
BS.
He hated Black people and had no plans to improve their living conditions
Shout out to my dude, Eugene V. Debbs!! Terre Haute remembers!!
The only presidential candidate in 1912 worth voting for. Naturally, he finished in 4th place.
@andrewfusco8580 roosevelt was a far superior choice to him
@@andrewfusco8580 Prisoner 9653 ran for presidency in 1920 too
@@Kruppt808 agreed. Debbs, Roosevelt, and Taft each had their flaws, but Wilson was a madman convinced of his own moral and intellectual superiority -- a far more dangerous and authoritarian character than the othe three.
I don't think the country would have voted a Socialist POTUS,still a fringe Ideology
He was just basically, a product of his time.
If anyone asked me about Wilson all I know is the League of Nations
Colonel Edward House as always been a political mystery man..😮
What a horrible human being.
Right you are
He was Bernard Baruch's boy
Beyond evil. That man is right up there with Hitler. I hate him forever!
And a democrat like Barack Hussein Obama
@@martinalarcon3108 Yes, the number race hustler was Obama.
Big reason why Japan became a hostile country
Johns Hopkins. Not John
By my time for my old parish the next year to be there
The 19th-23 is the first that you have anything for the excellent team
Good video! Terrible person!😢
And a democrat no surprise there
If Wilson had resisted the temptation to become involved in the war, the brutal outcome of the conflict may well have led to a more lasting peace. His ego couldn't resist the limelight of the postwar talks.
A monster
7:05 SHOCKER
The 20 Dollar Bill should have been changed long ago.
Absoeffinlutely
@@Jason-gg4lma hate monger shouldn’t be lionized!
$20 cent piece ?
That's Andrew Jackson not Woodrow Wilson....?
@@ChuckHolland-i4b You are absolutely right about that, but I still think that it’s past time for that change. I think that Wilson is on the 1,000 Dollar Bill which should also be changed for the same reason.
America's economic weight was AS strong in 1918 AS that of all the Others combined. America Had the Power to decide what the Peace was to be Like. So America was responsible for what happened at Versailles.
Hank and walter white debunking WW, says 'woodrow Wilson'
Please do Baruch Spinoza
WILSON!
Nice reference to Cynical Historian.
Aha! You’re a fan of ‘The Inbetweeners’. Respect.
@@robertcottam8824 I thought it was a reference to the volleyball guy in Castaway with Tom Hanks.
I'm a fan of the Inbetweeners and Castaway, but I was referencing the Cynical Historian.
This documentary thinks Wilson playing Birth of a Nation at the White House was worse than creating the Federal Reserve.
I beg to differ.
The Income Tax was the worst.
I'm an FDR Democrat but Wilson had his head screwed on backwards. TR, Taft or Charles Evans Hughes would have been better choices as US President, Hughes in particular. Throwing a hand grenade into the map of Europe in 1918 with the phrase of "self determination" merely established a whole lot of countries that weren't nations and fell apart once Adolf came around. The old monarchies weren't that terrible when one saw what replaced them. Woodrow's arteriosclerosis hit his brain first.
Klansman on the Court
In 1937 FDR appointed Alabama Senator Hugo Black to the Supreme Court. Black was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and built his career campaigning at Klan meetings. Black was well known for his anti-Catholic viewpoints. In Korematsu v. the United States, Black voted to uphold President Roosevelt's mass arrests and incarceration of Japanese men, women, and children based on race.
President Roosevelt called Democrat Klansman Sen. Theodore Bilbo "a real friend of liberal government. Bilbo claimed himself to be "100 percent for Roosevelt...and the New Deal."[107] In a 1938 filibuster against anti-lynching legislation, Bilbo said on the Senate floor that the bill would “open the floodgates of hell in the South” by encouraging Black men to rape white women.
Franklin Roosevelt nominated James F. Byrnes to the Supreme Court and was confirmed by the Democrat Senate in 1941. The NAACP opposed his confirmation in a telegram to the White House:
“If Senator Byrnes at any time in his long public career failed to take a position inimical to the human and citizenship rights of 13 million American Negro citizens, close scrutiny of his record fails to reveal it.
Opposition to anti-lynching law
Segregationist senators Tom Connally, Walter F. George, Richard Russell, Jr., and Claude Pepper filibustering the Wagner-Van Nuys Act, an anti-lynching bill, in 1938; all four were liberal New Dealers.
Despite insistence by leftists that the Democrat opposition to civil rights legislation (including anti-lynching legislation) was exclusively from "conservative"/Southern Democrats, it's important to note that a 1937 anti-lynching bill passed the House with opposition from both the Southern bloc in addition to 15 Northern Democrats.[112] Of those who voted on the legislation by party, it got 96% support from Republicans and only 62% from Democrats.
In late July 1937, Senate Democrats successfully tabled an anti-lynching effort (introduced by pro-civil rights DINO Royal S. Copeland) twice. On July 26, the Senate voted 41-34 to kill an anti-lynching amendment,[113] with the "Yeas" including future Supreme Court justice Hugo Black and future Vice President Alben Barkley. Over a dozen Northern Democrats voted with the Southern bloc to kill the amendment. 61% of Democrats voted in favor of tabling.
Five days later, the majority of Senate Democrats (66% of them) voted yet again to kill the amendment in a 46-39 vote.
He was a great supremacist.
And a true white privilege democrat 😮😢
Woodrow Wilson AKA Bernard Baruch's emissary.
He’s like Obama but white.
He’s the reason for income tax. Automatic L
I will hate him forever and so will my kids and their kids....that man unleash hell on hard working Americans!
Wilson was an accidential President, who wouldnt have been elected by todays standards.
1) It would be more unlikely that The New Jersey party bosses would choose Wilson as their nominee, in 2024. They could see footage of Wilson on the internet.
2) Even if he won the Governorship, it would be unlikely that he'd get the nomination. Presidential Primaries would have a greater impact. Would Wilson's speaking skills come off as too condescending? Would Wilson's views on race be a hindrance to his nomination?
3) Could Wilson even get the nomination? The Democrats of 1912, had the infamous "two-thirds " rule, which is required for nominees. The Democrats of 2024, only required a simple majority of delegates. Speaker of the House Champ Clark had a simple majority of delegates in 1912. But, in an alternate 2024, that simple majority would get him the nomination. (An alternate 2024 would also give Clark, a strong support from Superdelegates. )
4) Even if Wilson won the nomination, The Republicans would have had a more unified front. 2024 standards would have kept TR from being a candidate, because of the 22nd Amendment. (The 22nd Amendment came into effect in 1951.) TR would have likely supported Taft.
But if the 22nd Amendment was not a factor, TR would have won the Republican Nomination, because of his victories in the primaries. Taft would have endorsed him. A unified Republican ticket would have the nominee with about 57 percent of the popular vote. The GOP nominee would have also won a majority of the Electoral College. (The only reason Wilson won the bulk of his Electoral Votes, in real timeline, outside the South, was because of the TR-Taft split in the popular votes.)
Basically, Wilson couldn’t beat TR or Taft in a the fair fight.
@DarthDread-oh2ne He couldn't win on a one-on-one match.
Also, the Republicans had control of the White House for sixteen years. Other than the TR-Taft split (or fatigue of the Republicans being in charge for too long), were there any other factors that could have contributed to a Wilson victory?
Wilson's victory in 1912, along with Debbs finishing as high as 4th place, essentially sent a message to both political parties: don't split the vote. Don't break rank. Nominate a candidate and go all in.
We're stuck with the two party system as it is today thanks to that election. You don't see serious 3rd party contenders because neither party's members break rank. Actual competition on the same political side gets suppressed. A rogue politician from one party running as a 3rd party candidate siphons votes from the main candidate. In that scenario, like in 1912, the other guy wins. Nowadays, people know how it works so they keep their party members in line.
There are NO STANDARDS TODAY IF YOU CAN ELECT 45!!!!!!
@@Contessa6363omg your TDS is hanging out all over🙄trust and believe bumblebiden wont be remembered fondly in history.
Always enjoy studying this man.
I mean, “Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era” by Thomas C. Leonard really illustrates that the whole racism thing was hardly exclusive to this particular progressive and even rather common.
Well, it is fine that Wilson is called out for his obvious racism. But how about his disgraceful contribution (as a historian) to lending academic credibility to the 'lost cause' myth (that still plagues the controversies around the American Civil War)? And how about his responsibility for the 'red scare' of 1919 - leaving a toxic legacy of curtailing civil rights in the face of political hysteria? The latter is probably the most regrettable omission in this documentary.
Given the soviet union spent millions a year since 1920 trying to subvert American culture and politics, while sending trained agents to take job in middle management of Washington, papers, and Hollywood, it's not really a hysteria, is it?
I don't defend those views but he was a man of his times. It does little good to judge anyone a century ago by the standards of 2024.
@@andrewfrancis7272 Oh, Wilson was horrendously prejudiced even by early 20th century standards. You should not worry about that. And the 'lost cause' myth was always flying in the face of established historical facts, no matter the calendar year.
The mastermind behind the Great Depression because of the interest rates going poor in the Federal Reserve.
Democrat
Probably the second smartest president after John Quincy Adams
ويلسن رئيس أمريكي رائع صاحب النقاط ال 14 المثاليه التي لو عمل بها العالم لعاش في سعاده
I have a biography of Wilson it's by HW Brands
I’m currently reading about Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H.W. Brands. I plan on reading about Wilson, by the same author, next. Happy Reading to you!
Brands is a fantastic author
I find it interesting that a large degree of people are rendering opinions most of criticism woithout considering what were the political issues of the time. And applying his administration’s policies to the issues of today. Its insanity.
‘It’s importance (of the FED) has been firmly demonstrated in recent times, in its role combating inflation in the 2020’s’
🤣 ROFL LMAO 😂
The damn income tax, come on man
Thou shalt honor god and love others…self fails every time
Thats o.k....🙄
For a moment.
his Dirty Ass, done got it.
Can't hurt Nobody else.
he too, gonna give account
for his deeds.
isn't it Lovely 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Woodrow Wilson was a great president 👍
And Satan is a great God for humans.
Typical democrat
He behaved as if he was intellectually superior than most but was truly just a petulant human being loaded with prejudice. A real loser!
Wilson was one of the worst Presidents we had the misfortune of electing.
If you elect him it cant be a misfortune, its just stupid. Big chance there be stupid again in 2025. We are laughing oure asses of here in europe what a circus
And black folks continue to vote Democratic.....SMH!
@@dennismerlijn7459you think this is funny?! What an idiot!
Just another stock standard democrat. He just was willing to say what he really thought about people out loud.
And the Black folks bought that from him....ignoring the GOP who did so much for them after the civil war!
He was One of the Worst Ever.
“Hold my beer”- Joe Biden 2024
What a GREAT PRESIDENT. We, the Armenian people, will remember him FOREVER, FOREVER.
Oh hell no he isn’t!
Who the hell names their child Woodrow 😅 says all you need to know
First name was Thomas. But yes Woodrow was definitely an interesting name
🤔Did I miss it OR did this totally omit the Spanish Flu of that time frame🤔
💯🤡💯🤡💯🤡💯🤡
100,000-dollar bill man
JOHNS Hopkins, ffs.
Thank you. I found that so annoying as well.
Why did they change the name of this episode
It was divisive democrat
Lucrative cotton trade?! That’s what we calling it 😂
Ruined this country with two amendments, 16th and 17th.
100% . He was Evil.
Do you think this guy was worse than Joe Biden?
The only thing I know about Woodrow Wilson is that Americans refuse to talk about him and you're not allowed to ask & probably more importantly, that Bart Simpson invented an alias using his photo and name 'Woodrow' responding to a personals ad placed by his teacher Edna Krabappel.
Eager to listen hoping we'll hit these important points.
He was one
he🎉was one smarpresidenttpist smartest president he came up with the leagiue of nation that fdrused to es
Smartest president only one with a phd
Thats on guy that needed to be deleted.
WILSON!