fifty years ago i thought wilson a great president as i pursued my history studies but these days i know the reality was far different and here hornberger presents some of the reasons why;

Princeton University’s board of trustees has voted to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from its public policy school and one of its residential colleges. Wilson is not only a former U.S. president but also served as Princeton’s president from 1902-1910.

The reason for the board’s action is Wilson’s racism. He didn’t want blacks applying to Princeton. He segregated the civil service, which previously had been integrated. In an economic downtown, he laid off postal workers who were predominantly black.

There is another good reason though for removing Wilson’s name from Princeton, one that most everyone simply ignores. He embroiled the United States in World War I, which led to the meaningless deaths of more than 100,000 U.S. soldiers. Another half-a-million Americans died from the Spanish flu that the war helped spread.

Wilson’s interventionism was contrary to America’s founding principle of non-interventionism, which was summarized in John Quincy Adams’ Fourth of July address to Congress in 1821. Adams pointed out that America did not “go abroad in search of monsters to destroy” with an interventionist foreign policy. Adams stated that if America were ever to abandon that founding foreign policy, she would become a “dictatress” of the world.

One thing is for sure: Wilson’s war made him one of the dictators of the world. When less than 100,000 American men volunteered to fight in his war, Congress authorized Wilson to conscript 10 million Americans. Conscription, of course, is based on force. Wilson forced American men to fight his foreign war, on pain of harsh punishment if they refused to do so............read more.........