Friday, April 27, 2012

True Fact of the day

In 1915, President Wilson directed the Secretary of the Treasury to have the Secret Service investigate espionage in the United States.

8 comments:

Lindbergh said...

He should know, being one of, and intimately familiar with both.

El Borak said...

Worst President the nation could ever imagine. Moderns who assign said title to Bush, Obama, or even Carter have truly never explored even the surface of the damage this man did to the country.

doomfinger said...

I love it when Wilson worshipers complain about McCarthyism.

ehart said...

Back in the Dark Ages (before computers in every classroom), when I was in the same history department you are, one of the professors assigned a bio of Wilson to the class. I was part of a bio series and the prof said (and I paraphrase): "Every author of every presidential biography in this series has ended up in love with the president he or she wrote about...except for this one. There's just not much to love about Woodrow Wilson."

El Borak said...

Well, he's dead. That makes me feel a little better about him.

A Belmont said...

He is dead, true.
But he and Mr. House - and especially those House worked for - left you presents and a legacy for your entire lifetime thus far, and the presents actually get much, much worse with time!
Now, that's talent and a legacy gift that keeps on "giving" (read: taking).
That's how we roll.

Professor Hale said...

What's he got against strippers? i suppose back in his day, girls didn't need to work their way through college but I admite these hard-working young ladies (as often as I can).

Doomfinger said...

Time to resurrect Wilson.