Woodrow Wilson Quotes
He appeals to their imagination; I do not. He is a real vivid person whom they have seen and shouted themselves hoarse over and voted for, millions strong: I am a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
It was a 3-way race where the right wing of the Republican Party had stacked the deck so that Taft would be selected the nominee despite the greater popularity of TR who then decided to run as a 3rd party candidate. He beat the Republican nominee and incumbent President Taft soundly and the two of them together got many more votes than Wilson but Wilson had the most votes with only 42 percent. He got the loyal Democrat votes but lost the independents to Roosevelt who in turn lost the conservative Republicans to Taft. Wilson had the mathematics which made up for his personal weaknesses. What is very interesting about this quotation is that Wilson thought of himself as an intellectual as opposed to TR, but in reality Roosevelt was not only also an intellectual but the only President who was a world class scientists.
Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924, 28th President of the United States (Democrat, NJ), Conversation with a friend comparing himself to Theodore Roosevelt, 1912
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She was commenting on the 2016 Presidential Campaign where large numbers of voters did not like each candidate.
Lyndon Johnson was unhappy with his low popularity and asked some advisors why it was that people didn't seem to like him:
In the 1952 Presidential campaign the Republicans had used the new medium of television as a very effective campaign tool even though neither Eisenhower nor Stephenson were particularly telegenic. However Hall and some other political leaders saw the remarkable power of TV. This appears to be the first public statement by any politician or party official where it is suggested that how a candidate comes across on television be an important criterion of selection of candidates in general and presidential candidates in particular.
Stimson had run for the New York Governor and had lost. Stimson had been offered by President Taft the job of Secretary of State, and asked TR’s advice as to whether to take it. Stimson became Secretary of State.
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of Princeton University and as the 34th governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential election. As President, Wilson led the United States into World War I in 1917. He was the leading architect of the League of Nations, and his progressive stance on foreign policy came to be known as Wilsonianism. Scholars have generally ranked Wilson in the upper tier of U.S presidents, although he has been criticized for supporting racial segregation and white supremacy.
