Harry Truman called Woodrow Wilson “the greatest of the greats.”
Theodore Roosevelt called him “the lily-livered skunk in the White
House.” Wilson won the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to forge
peace after World War I, yet more recent critics have called him a
racist. In the last several years, Princeton University, where Wilson
served as president before entering politics, even debated whether to
remove Wilson’s name from its buildings.
Wilson is arguably America’s most controversial president. Now anyone
with internet access can explore his papers at the Library of Congress
to understand why: The Library has made the largest single collection of original Wilson material in the world available online. More than a quarter-million documents from Wilson’s papers are included.
Presidents other than Wilson – Andrew Jackson and Warren Harding, for
example – have more uniformly negative reputations, but their
presidencies inspire little heat nowadays. Who gets worked up today
about James Buchanan and his failed presidency on the eve of the Civil
War?
Yet almost a hundred years after his death in 1924, Wilson and his
outsized role in American history is still argued over, sometimes
heatedly. He continues to have his dedicated admirers and his blistering
critics in part because of the great influence he and his presidency
had on the United States.
via https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2018/06/new-online-papers-of-the-president-people-love-to-hate/
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