Woodrow Wilson

So really, you'll get no argument from me there.

Where I think you will get an argument from me, Philip, is that as far as the formation of American foreign policy is concerned, I don't think you need a kind of a longstanding British involvement, a kind of a Britain passing the secrets of foreign policy book across to Prescott Bush or whoever they might have passed, or Woodrow Wilson or whoever they might have passed it across to in the early part of the 20th century.

I just don't think you need that.

There are two... very well established ways in which the United States would take the view that it took on Ukraine.

Like apostles in a new and lofty cause, the progressives entered a vigorous campaign for the election of their distinguished leader.

Woodrow Wilson and the Election of 1912 With the Republicans divided, victory loomed up before the Democrats.

Naturally, a terrific contest over the domination occurred at their convention in Baltimore.

Champ Clark, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey were the chief contestants.

After tossing to and fro for seven long hot days and taking forty-six ballots, the delegates, powerfully influenced by Mr. Bryan, finally decided in favor of the governor.

As a professor, a writer on historical and political subjects, and the president of Princeton University, Mr. Wilson had become widely known in public life.

By a series of addresses later published under the title of The New Freedom, he declared that the government of the United States is at present the foster child of the special interests.

He proposed to free the country by breaking the dominance of the big bankers, the big manufacturers, the big masters of commerce.

perpetrated that crime on the American people.

Woodrow Wilson, may he burn in hell next to Karl Marx.

Did you know, Squirrel, that that sick, twisted, corrupt bastard had a stroke and laid in bed like Joe Biden, urinating himself, drooling? 18 months, his dog wife was the president, who said jack about it.

Nothing.

You can't do jack about it.

That's the creature from Jekyll Island, and it will be in existence.

By the way, do a little research and try to figure out, who are those 13 scum that put this together? And then Woodrow Wilson put lipstick on it.

Who are the 13 families? You've got the Rockefellers, you've got the Rothschilds, you've got Morgan.

if the quality of thought appreciated and accepted by the mob were by nature of such lowness from a personal or communistic standpoint that gardens were unnecessary then the jail and the church the school and the reformatory would disappear automatically and the towers and the minarets of utopia would reflect the whiteness of a hetero unsuspected the mess is fed therefore a pamphlet which is more or less prodigised by the school and the church not to mention the matter of the newspaper and last but by no means pleased by the screen now thinking being one thing and reasoning a horse of quite another color the mass forms its conclusions for the greater part by such artificial processes as this taking them on surface values to expect that same as to reason this copybook maxim's pro or con would be to expect a miracle i once heard a person say show me what newspaper a man reads and i will tell you his political opinions that remark might be translated for the screen show me which artist's picture a person most frequently sees and i will tell you that person's general outlook on life this statement may sound rude but to one who receives as many personal letters as i do both on the subject of my own place and the place of other artists as well it underestimates rather than exaggerates the truth i have found that the bulk of these letters take for a gospel that we state upon the screen and are powerfully affected thereby this being the case it behoves those who have the responsibility of guarding the public mind pictorially speaking to see to it that their mind shall be given such quality of a thought that shall not lead it to a lesser state of grace for instance while one admits that sex and crime have their place in art and on the screen one would make it a sine qua non that if lapses from certain loves are to be made the basis for screen amusement call it what you will the offenders must be proud to face the inevitable consequences of their wrong doing these consequences should be shown in as great detail as the offence so that the criminal may not be hysterically proclaimed a hero or a murderer or the poiler publico as a sweet godless young thing who god knows couldn't help it such pictures as a raffle's just to take a cat in point are to my mind exceptionally dangerous and bad propaganda for the unreasoning here is a man who under the guise of friendship eats his friend's soul takes him by the hand and under cover of the darkness and a sleeping household robs him in the film of revels all the sympathy of the beholder is unleashed on behalf of this common dirty sneak thief instead of the play showing what ninety-nine out of a hundred cases would have logically happened to him in actual life and which by the way would tend to show that even apart from the ethics of common decency it is an economic blunder to steal he is shown as a hero of a romance and is of course allowed to escape free and clear pictures showing heroines in riverside-drive apartments baring and befeathered surrounded by a bevy of obsequious serving wenches and an army of frisbeakiness while they the heroines hold streaming handkerchiefs to their eyes to the accompaniment of a subtitle which informs us that mother simply had to have an operation and it was the only way are common to the fact that clinics are provided in every hospital where medical and surgical treatment is free of charge of course never enters the nasty minds of the skinnerial writer or it is still more nasty because more commercial the sacrifice of her honor is the tasty tit-bit which must be served up on a platter of gold with a piquant source of neurotic and weak spine hysteria the show-letter the hospital or the riverward field the producer or the carefully educated public will disgust at such crassness of reality such sordid details must be spared the delicate susceptibilities of those who are furious earlier thrilled deliriously at the aforesaid sacrifice particularly if accompanied by a thrilling display of torn shirt-waist and dishevelled hair no no hospital no river the audience must be placated the heroine must be whitewashed at the eleven hour so that there may be no eerie piracy among the simon peers of the flock in the aurora of age in the screen play the woman who goes out to melissa fordow to select her mate with or without the law as beseems her best and then faces squarely the consequence of her own action no matter what their consequence may be is on the other hand a villainess of the deepest joy and rarely gets up by the scissors of the thoroughly moral sense of thought the sympathy of the masses not with her she has given them probably no thrills in the first place she has not been dragged by the hair to the apartment on riverside drive she has not profited to the extent of showing us a bevy of maids and a collection of prize picnics thrust unwillingly upon her as the result of mother's oppression and she has not held to high heaven that she couldn't help it depriving us thereby of the final exercise of our inalienable right to forgive again a side that is pandering to the nasty desire for nasty things to the morbid and hysterical craving of those whose principal object in coming to the theatre is to see forbidden and therefore attractive scenes which they are after all sinning by proxy is bad stuff very bad stuff indeed and there is another thing which helps to make this state of affairs inimitable worse that is the advertising or publicity which the producer or exhibitor employs to stir up the worst sides of human nature to a pitch of curiosity which will redound to their inevitable harm and to his undoubted profit it is only a few months ago that i saw a full-page advertisement in a new york sunday paper which bore advertising to this effect in its largest and blackest type she led one man to ruin another to dishonor and a third to that see miss n i'm at the point of seeing this picture i was anxious to know what punishment could possibly be found meet for a lady of such disturbing pictorially i may say that that film thoroughly and entirely lived up to its advertised specifications but the punishment why of course there was none she couldn't help it her husband said so in a title after which the scene faded out on a lengthy and thoroughly nosy collage this is only one instance of the harm that advertising is just one of the many but powerful ramifications of the influence of the screen can accomplish take any advertising paper and read some of the idiotic and dangerous muck that is used to exploit certain screen productions only one thing seems to me to throw any hope on the situation and that is that a pendulum can only swing just so far in one direction it must finally swing the other way we have had crime epitomised we have had every kind of thrill forbidden and otherwise with the exception perhaps of the details of the punishment to fit the crime until with the inevitable reversion of the pendulum who knows but that some day we shall be thrilled to dissolve at the sight of a daisy growing in the grass or a sun setting across a silver sea the advertising will tell us that it is the most beautiful sunset ever photographed and the sexual apparitions of the heroine will not even be mentioned When I think of broken blossoms, Mr. Griffith's great because simple masterpiece, I see the signs of the times.

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I remember seeing there a picture of the village orchestra, and as the director rapped for attention, the first violin leaned forward and asked, What is the next piece? And, being informed, replied, Why, I just played that one.

Woodrow Wilson once told me a story which illustrates how dangerous it is for anyone to assume that the English have no sense of humor.

Three Americans were telling anecdotes to illustrate the English dearth of humor when they saw approaching a representative of that nation.

It was agreed that he should then and there be put to the test.

Then he put his head down on the cabinet table and wept.

The President was Woodrow Wilson, the year 1917, and today, Good Friday.

America entered a war that had begun with a terrorist act.

An organized assassination.

Right.

And they use old Woodrow Wilson style arguments.

Right.

These very elitist arguments that we've heard for like 100 years and more.

It's absolutely true.

And Woodrow Wilson said, don't even pay attention to the preamble.

Talk about the Declaration of Rights.

But let's dig in on the preamble a little bit.