The President's Illness
Title
The President's Illness
Creator
Unknown
Identifier
WWP16246
Date
1920 April 26
Description
Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock reports that President Woodrow Wilson is an invalid.
Source
Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia
Language
English
Text
THE news given out by Senator Hitchcock that President Wilson “is an invalid and broken in health” will undoubtedly cause sorrow throughout the country. Most Americans will especially regret the president’s condition because of the fact that the failure of his health is due to the loyal service which he rendered in the cause of worldwide peace. Senator Hitchcock directly attributes President Wilson’s breakdown to the course taken by the American senate, which has kept the United States out of the league of nations.
Before the war, during the war and since the armistice was signed President Wilson has borne unusually heavy responsibilities. He has not only led the fight to guarantee the principles for which the United States entered the war, but he has been called upon constantly to settle a myriad of controversies in Europe that otherwise might have precipitated another conflict.
In return for his magnificent work for peace, he was met by a partisan, jealous and malignant republican majority in the senate, not with the spirit which prompts the course of great statesmen, but with the mean, low motives that inspire men who place their party above their country.
He has seen America, on a pedestal high up in the estimation of an admiring world, pulled down and discredited by republican partisans.
The whole disgraceful proceeding is enough to make any American sick. It is not surprising that is has broken the health of the great leader whose whole heart and soul were unquestionably wrapped up in the plan to maintain the leadership of America in insuring the blessings of peace.
Before the war, during the war and since the armistice was signed President Wilson has borne unusually heavy responsibilities. He has not only led the fight to guarantee the principles for which the United States entered the war, but he has been called upon constantly to settle a myriad of controversies in Europe that otherwise might have precipitated another conflict.
In return for his magnificent work for peace, he was met by a partisan, jealous and malignant republican majority in the senate, not with the spirit which prompts the course of great statesmen, but with the mean, low motives that inspire men who place their party above their country.
He has seen America, on a pedestal high up in the estimation of an admiring world, pulled down and discredited by republican partisans.
The whole disgraceful proceeding is enough to make any American sick. It is not surprising that is has broken the health of the great leader whose whole heart and soul were unquestionably wrapped up in the plan to maintain the leadership of America in insuring the blessings of peace.
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Unknown, “The President's Illness,” 1920 April 26, WWP16246, Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.