Woodrow Wilson: The Worst Great President? 

make a video on Dr BR Ambedkar.

When are you going to do a video on Abraham Lincoln the real greatest president in US history 🥰🥰

Do you have any plans to make a video on Pierre Trudeau and the FLQ crisis?

@@MotherJanuary He's on the list!

Please could we have a video (or five!) about the Cambridge Five?

I am surprised people have not made comments, about him, excusing his racism that he was a product of his era.

@inchulkman Your comment is made in a way that he was asking you, but the guy is telling facts. This president made, it hard for good honest hardworking middle class blacks. You would have thrived in that era but me, I would struggle because I am not white. Do you think it is ok that black people struggled in that era, just because they are black.

@@jameswatson5807 Spoiler alert: They're perfectly fine with it.

@@gphjr1444 Oh yeah I know.

@@jameswatson5807 people aren't that stupid. Nobody wants to be canceled on a dead man's account

Now that's something and if Woodrow Wilson witnessed that he'd be horrified.

McCarthy was correct that communists infiltrated the government but he was def. doing it for the sake of political power. His own cousin, Frank Hubert of Dune fame, warned that expanding gov't powers in search of communists could lead to unintended consequences.

That made me smile

@@JK-gu3tl There undoubtedly were, but he just as often went after folks he simply didn't like.

@@JK-gu3tl To the minor extent that communist infiltration was a thing, it was harmless compared to the disaster that total right-wing domination of our foreign policy became after the McCarthy purges. The right-wingers' anti-communist hysteria led directly to Vietnam and our support for countless dictatorships, from Franco in Spain to the Shah in Iran.

He was the first communist republic president.

@@ricky4673I think you need to to read up on what communism is

Except a True Monopoly is when Government has control over everything. The term "Monopoly" is simply Anti-Capitalist Propaganda by Progressives. What red-pilled (or yellow-pilled due to Libertarianism) me on that was the book "How Capitalism Saved America" (2004) by Libertarian Thomas J. DiLorenzo. These days Americans cannot even tell the differences between Free-Market Capitalism & Crony Capitalism nor Market Entrepreneur & Political Entreprenuer.

​@@jakebate1533 as an anti capitalist, I don't see the core capitalism as inherently bad, but it allows for evil people to abuse it like it is right now. For capitalism to work it needs major reforms and a way to stop the rampant corruption that permeates every facet of American life. Modern Capitalism props up those that already have exponential amounts of money and blocks out those that don't. Yeah it is possible to go from poor to rich but it is unnecessarily difficult to do so. You are more likely to go rich to poor than poor to middle class. No political ideal is perfect, but we shouldn't advocate for an ideal that actively puts it's citizens down

​@@ajax1812 I also think we need major reforms, mostly to combat monopolies and anti-competition practices. But you said you are an "anti-capitalist", what then would you suggest as an alternative?

Same Here in Germany

I think people don’t realize that Wilson’s 14 point were never put into effect. The other Allies did most of the treaty of Versailles

@@night6724 nah Europe destroyed Europe with the treaty of Versailles

@@night6724 yeah, the other allies did that, not Woodrow Wilson

Wilson was irrelevant in the reconstruction of WW1 Europe. He only provided cannon fodder for the winning side. None of his ideas were implemented, including his 14 freedoms either in the US or Europe. He was so hated in the US that the Senate ratified A separate treaty with Germany in 1920. The US remained very "mostly" neutral until Pearl Harbor in 1941. There were some in Europe who blamed the US's isolationism for the failure of "The League of Nations".

This is where I ultimately fall on Woodrow Wilson: he was so *frustratingly* hypocritical. Almost on par with Thomas Jefferson, but at least Jefferson knew he was a hypocrite. Votes and self-determination for Czechs and Poles in their homelands, but not for the Irish or African-Americans

@@erraticonteuse Jefferson had his virtues, and while his view towards slavery was insultingly patronizing by modern standards, he may have had a point when he said that keeping them would also protect them from being lynched; he also refused to whip them, banned the international slave trade, and was against expanding it. And he did believe that women should get an education, and supported early suffragists.

Wow! Just wow.

@@pyromania1018 Dude, Jefferson was a hypocrite, get over it. And he absolutely did not support women's suffrage or even education really - he told his daughter Martha that the only reason she was getting educated was because he couldn't trust that whatever husband she eventually ended up with would himself be educated up to his standard and could leave her in a bad financial situation. If someone teaches a kid to swim so they don't drown, that's not the same thing as encouraging an Olympic career. In Jefferson's "perfect" world, his daughter wouldn't have been educated.

@@erraticonteuse Which sadly that is so sadly true and you can only wonder what would happen if this guy witnessed our times.

War ends sooner and communism doesn’t happen

@@Iamthestig42069 The US would’ve entered the war much quicker and yes it likely would’ve ended a lot quicker. If he had been at the table dictating terms, perhaps the conditions that led to WW2 wouldn’t have led to Hitler. Meanwhile on the domestic side there would have still be progressive reforms (anti trust, square deal type anti corruption) and no federal push for segregation.

@@night6724 Taft would’ve been very unhappy. But his wife would’ve been thrilled.

@@night6724 that and pride/anger at TR

It would probably be a better world.

This is an example of Trumpian American history that Trump wanted to bring back to American schools. Thank goodness that present day texts cover both the positive and negative aspects of his time in office.

@@johngreen3543 I was born in the 80’s and I live and grew up in the UK. I don’t think I can blame Trump in this case!

@@johngreen3543 Because America is the only country in the world and Trump is somehow related to every woe Man has ever known.

@@johngreen3543 Wilson was a highly educated Progressive identitarian who used virtue signalling identitarianism and propaganda to expand totalitarian power while accomplishing nothing for the country. A Democrat through and through.

Also by the description you described and for people living in now we can be glad we're not living then though sadly for ancestors or anyone unfortunate to be living then it really was a horror.

Buchanan, Pierce, Wilson are my worst 3. On top off Wilson's vile & repugnant racism, snobbish elitism, & an ego only recently surpassed by Obama & Trump, Wilson's allowed those horrific traits to interfere with the Treaty of Versailles alienating both Germany & Japan setting the stage for WWII. As for domestic... Wilson too many horrific policies the vast majority we're still trying to overcome a century later. Federal Reserve Bank since 1st Federal Reserve Note was issued in 1915 we've had a cumulative inflation of 2748%. Fragments of the wildly unconstitutional Espionage & Sedition Acts not fully repealed are still used to against US Citizens from time to time. The fiasco trials of Schenck v US & Abrams v US based upon the Unconstitutional Espionage Act which though have been overruled still get used as excuse to go after US Citizens for free speech & civil disobedience. I know draft dodger gets tossed around as a pejorative, hell I used it against Bill Clinton until I realized that the draft is Unconstitutional as violation of Equal Protection & Involuntary Servitude (pressed into military service against ones will is certainly involuntary servitude). But to escalate protesting draft WWI or otherwise to the level of Espionage is tyrannical. If I did a video documenting the repercussions of Wilson, it would be well over 1hr. While Wilson may not be the worst POTUS ever, he is the worst 20th century POTUS in my opinion.

@@1776SOL Great points, all! He was especially evil in driving black people from the Federal Civil Service... Reprehensible man, and an academic...

@@rachaelsdaddontdrink What's interesting about Woodrow Wilson, is that while he instituted progressive reforms specifically for the white working class, he hated the white working class too. It was a different kind of hatred, bourne out of scholastic elitism. If you read writings & speeches while Pres of Princeton University he had both a deep disdain & paternalistic pitty for the "working class". The man was just an awful, awful person. Personally I think only 3 things stopped him from going all genocidal dictator. The balance of powers in the Constitution, his faith, & his age/health. I think had he been a little younger & healthier, & unrestrained by his faith & the Constitutional delegation of powers we could've seen him on the list of 20th century genocidal dictators.

@@1776SOL I can say that description he makes what Eric Cartman and Montgomery Burns from South Park and Simpsons look like a ditz and picnic in comparison and he'd be spinning in his grave seeing the times now.

I see you're a conservative person

@@night6724 and then turned around and invaded several countries because "Democracy".

@@theawesomeman9821 You say it like it's a bad thing. The left is much much worse than you could ever imagine.

Wasn’t citizenship given to puertoricans just to be able to draft them? I think I had heard or read something along these lines. Anyone care to clarify?

I’ll leave the FED out of this, but you’re right. He set back race relegations by decades, ruined our foreign policy, and corrupted Progressivism, making it just a way to expand government power. People also forget that on the list of countries he invaded, a big one is missed, Russia. Wilson’s mishandling of WWI and the peace talks led directly to the rise of Lenin and the USSR as well as Hitler and WWII.

Have you ever glossed over a nice taught pair of hemingways?

I don't get this reference. All I can think of is the Phish song

@@JK-gm6kk the guy who runs the cynical historian channel hates Wilson.

@@robertoleary5470 he despises him with a passion... So do I.. 😂😂😂💀💀

Discovery zone from gathering history and lived through none of it! Just kidding we have been enjoying his time until today unless anyone wants to change it;) His ideas live inside 2022.

YES!!!

FDR wasn’t much better. He tried to pack the Supreme Court, had no issue putting klan members on the court with justice Hugo Black and even called him Benito Mussolini that admirable Italian gentleman” after he took power in Italy

Classical North American Hypocrisy.

I promise you if he were a republican the democrats would never shut up about how bad he was

@@lukelee6436 Word. It’s interesting how some of the worst or craziest presidents were Democrats. Not saying that there weren’t bad Republicans, but which party was the party of slavery, lynchings, segregation and the Klan?

@@starkilr101 Fair point, but Republicans lost credibility with minorities once Lyndon B Johnson signed the civil rights act of 1964,1968. Not to mention after that most Dixiecrats ended up endorsing Republican candidates who would continue certain dog whistles.

Well nothing is truly black and white

I prefer Karl Habsburg over Wilson.

That's why academics have never ranked him lower than 13th place 😏

Amen to that!

He was the greatest at making the worst

If you White & are okay with racists. The more you learn about him the inexplicable the esteem with in which he is still held. How Princeton still can still have buildings named after him is a scandal. And that tedious man of the time nonsense doesn't work. Teddy Roosevelt was quite the imperialist with sense of White Man burden. Wilson was all that with utterly vile poison. Irredeemably awful. Did his part to pave the way to WWII.

@@shakiMiki take a break

He conjures up the term "at least the trains ran on time."

His legacy is far more nuanced than that. Woodrow Wilson was no Andrew Johnson or James Buchanan.

Harding’s biggest fault was his choice of political allies and friends aka The Ohio Gang. Ans his inability to stand up to them.

Very well said. I totally agree.

I'm so glad that history isn't biased and shows the wrongdoings of everybody, not just the more publicized figures of the world. (Ex. Stalin, Mao, Hit-her, Pol Pot, etc.)

Hindsight is always 20/20.

Never seen somebody use comeuppance in a sentence.👍🤷‍♂️😅

As I’ve said before, never judge history as being purely black and white. There’s a lot more to Wilson than just being a racist.

Then I'm a princess

Especially the Federal Reserve because it is constantly devaluing the US Currency whenever it often prints too much money. At least the US caught Al Capone for Tax Evasion.

Yep

Income taxes were put in place because of prohibition, you should blame Wayne Wheeler and the anti-saloon league for the income tax.

Exactly! Federal reserve is the worst

And for my part, I'm hoping you do a video on Abraham Lincoln at some point.

1876 Election would be an interesting Into the Shadows

All of that stuff happened because of grant (and they already made a video about him) Hayes was pretty much the firecracker that surrounded it in the end, but he wasn't in power at the time. He might have fought against Jim crow more, but if he did, it would have invalidated the agreement and likely would have caused another civil war

@@badluck5647 agreed

Grant was an honest man in a sea of scoundrels. A great general, and a President who expended his popularity to try to bring Reconstruction to completion when America was too tired of fighting to care anymore... And then he fought his last battle, fighting to write his memoirs against the cancer that was killing him. An underrated President, I think. Simon, do you do videos like this on British prime ministers? Besides Churchill and Chamberlain?

>Wilson. >”Most authoritarian state.” FDR called, he wanted to stack the Supreme Court with more justices to get his way.

@@MatthewChenault You have to read about exactly what was happening in America during the lead-up to America's entry into WWI and during the Great War. Nothing else in American history has been so extreme and involved such widespread fervor in support of authoritarianism. Wilson took advantage of that national 'mood' and ran with it, but he was fully backed by almost the entire country.

@@CaminoAir, I think you’re confusing him with FDR.

@@MatthewChenault I'm sorry but did FDR straight up ban people from speaking out against the government and anyone who did no matter how subtle it was was called a traitor and imprisoned? The only imperial thing you can say about FDR is the Japanese camps and even then he got rid of them before he died. Wilson had no regrets about the Espionage and Sedition acts. Plus, he conquered a lot of countries and ran them like an Empire. You can't say that about FDR. I think you are believing FDR's long-term as him being imperial instead of anything he did. He was a liberator not a conqueror like Wilson.

Uncle Sim

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@@RetroChibii better than Uncle Simp...I'll take it

@@chrisrobertson7982 🤣 Uncle Simp 😂

@@johnhutchinson1663 truly. I get looking up to celebrities and enjoying their content but this kinda thing can be unhealthy

Birth of a Nation was based on a book called the Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan. This was written by Thomas Dixon Jr., an old friend of Wilson’s. Contrary to popular belief, there is no proof that Wilson liked the movie adaptation or even read the Clansman, although as a historian, he did like stories about the antebellum south. We can then say that his streaming of Birth of a Nation was intended more as a friendly gesture to an old friend or as the curiosity of a historian than the propagandistic move of a rabid racist. Although Wilson was racist, he wasn’t Klansman level racist, and he did try to oppose lynching as both New Jersey governor and President of the United States.

@@jibrilly why stream a movie that you don’t like or endorse? As a public figure, what you do is under heavy scrutiny

@@JonMI6 To show why you don't like or endorse it. You have to know your enemy

@@locochang6533 you’re a public figure

@@JonMI6 yer mom is a public figure.

As someone who has followed the history community in the past few years, it wasn't modern politics, it was just history remembered him as the Victor of world war 1. For years, he was among the best, but a few years back, the cynical historian published a video of how bad he was and it led others to do research. Nowadays, pretty much everyone hates his presidency, almost to the point where people just follow the crowd because it's unfashionable to praise him My perspective, he was on a similar scale as George w bush. He started off good, but overall ended in a disaster. I don't judge presidents on how their policies have aged, I view them by their leadership of the time, and in 1920, he was literally not competent to do anything

@@andrewsutherland133 It’s funny how people have the image that Wilson won WWI when America did next to nothing during the war, comparatively speaking. The war was already won by the time America got involved. They even depended on British and French guns and weapons as they had none for themselves. I’m sorry, Wilson is literally one of the worst presidents ever in my opinion haha.

@@iCrapBubbles Without the US, the entente still would have won, but not as quickly with as good of terms. You misunderstand how valuable fresh troops to the borders were, and while American troops might not have directly influenced the battle that much, it was very much a demoralizing factor for the central powers, who were starved of resources and manpower.

@@iCrapBubbles well I could get into a complicated argument about the role of the US in ww1 but it's alot simpler to point out that without a doubt, Wilson represented the Americans on the winning side of the war and thus, view him as the war victor the same way that Britons view Churchill as the great leader of world war 2 even though if he fought them without the Americans or soviets, it probably would have been a losing fight.

@@Nicholas8535 You’re right, it was a huge morale blow for the Germans when America joined. In their eyes, they still had a chance of winning, but all hope was dashed when news broke that the US declared war on them. I think that’s when most of the German soldiers knew they were losing this war, despite the fact that they were being starved out of it anyway. So with American intervention, the was ended sooner, but it was still going to be a victory for the allies, so you’re bang on.

You are clearly racist for saying that. Shame on you. But hey, everyone look at me! I am calling out racism! Look at my virtue!

@@William-the-Guy Sure, whatever you say.🤨 Must be nice living in that world of only saints & sinners. Seems to me your the one screaming out your virtue. SMH

@@aodhganmerrimac I thought it was pretty obvious I was being sarcastic...

@@William-the-Guy Sorry, it was not obvious.

@@aodhganmerrimac I will take that more as a commentary on our times, than on myself. I tried to make what I said as comically ridiculous as I could possibly immagine. But no matter how ridiculous I tried to sound, it still seemed like something a modern person would seriously say. Anyways I DID agree with your first comment.

No. Woodrow Wilson wanted a central bank, which led to the formation of the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve was meant to help prevent monetary instability, which, during the 1920’s, it was able to do. However, FDR was the one who abolished the Gold Standard and changed the Federal Reserve to be the corrupted entity it is. Wilson is blamed for the mistakes of other presidents.

@@MatthewChenault OMG no. NIXON abolished the gold standard. I wish people would get this right, because *for some reason* it's always pinned on Democratic Presidents, even though it is EXTREMELY well-documented that the Republican Nixon did it.

@@MatthewChenault He still banned freedom of speech and was a hardcore racist

@@adammccallion8640, based.

@@MatthewChenault without the federal reserve there wouldn't be a need for perpetual war

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I thought Truman was the one who did that.

man of contradictions

That’s the democrat party for you, they’ve been that way since the beginning of the party

@@calebgamer1720 nah. The ones who simp for the confederacy now are republicans. Just look at how they adore the confederate flag and statues.

One thing that would probably have been different is that our entry int WW1 would likely have come sooner. It's debatable whether that would have been a good thing, but in other ways, TR would have been better.

I love Teddy but he was in the wrong between him and Taft. Teddy was too much of a control freak.

He's also pretty much responsible for today's US global intervention policy.

@@VeteranAlpha Yup. I could have easily kept going. But you know, I didn't wanna spend my whole day shitting in Wilson on a youtube comment, fun as that sounds. Lol bit we definitely have him to thank for the modern version of American imperialism. Not that Teddy was anti-interventionalist, but Wilson's version was, (and with the advent of the Cold War became even moreso) much worse.

@@semaj_5022 in Italy Wilson wasn't loved. The Italian nationalists hated him because after WWI he gave Dalmatia to Jugoslavia and not to us. Their insatisfaction contributed to Mussolini's rise to power.

@@semaj_5022 BritMonkey made like 2 or 3 videos shitting on Wilson and I'll tell you right now. There's no other video out there that helped me open up my eyes as much as BritMonkeys. Highly recommended it!

He should have stayed out of Europe and let Germany and the Allies slug it out. Would have stopped such punitive reparations on Germany and hence would have stopped the rise of Hitler

Glad to hear it! And Hoover is on the list.

Because he was a globalist leftist like today’s reality curators.

@@therealgigglebop Globalism is a core tenet of conservatism, not liberalism.

He's great in the sense that he's important and influential.

@@therealgigglebop Constant foreign military intervention isn't exactly a leftwing policy choice, to say nothing of Wilson's other policies. Globalism is deeply ingrained in Liberal(in the economic sense, not the US political spectrum sense) and Neo-liberal ideology though, which is generally held by most conservatives today. Things you don't like aren't always automatically attributable to your opposed political faction.

@@therealgigglebop there is nothing leftist about anything the American presidents have done. The US has two right wing parties. Democrats are center right, while republicans drift further and further to the far right. Neoliberalism has been the hegemonic ideology since the 70s. American liberals and conservatives both fall under neoliberal thought.

Funny how The Casual Criminalist could also be applied to the subject of this video

I know...I also find myself adding my own memes and tangents internally - then having to go back and watch again because I missed most of it. 😅

It is wierd that he keeps talking about WW1 without making a tangent about that one time he bought groceries.

@@badluck5647 bahahah exactly!

Pretty great not having to hear him talk about his wife and kids for the nth time.

The truth will set you free

Hardly. He's too important a President to be taken down that much. The current era focusing so much on historical race relations has done far more damage, but Wilson will probably always be rated in the top third or so by historians.

@@CJ87317: Who cares about race? He created the Federal Reserve which is as Federal as "FedEx" and started this whole nonsense of "policing the world for democracy" which is literally how every war outside of WW2 was declared. Vietnam? Protecting Democracy. Iraq? Protecting Democracy from WMDs Afganistan? Spreading Democracy And rvery minor regional squabble we dipped out toes into has a direct tie to the Wilson Doctrine more so than the Monroe Doctrine.

His views on race are why the vast majority of people started to re-examine his legacy. The banking system before the Federal Reserve was a disaster. Basically from the time Jackson killed off the national bank until the creation of the Fed the banking system was always either running rampant or falling into mini-depressions. Not that the Fed is particularly great either - but it's better than what we had before. Officially we have had no war declared since WWII to technically speaking. As far as being the world policeman that you are aghast about - sure it has had its drawbacks. However, the umbrella of the UN and NATO has kept a relative peace for the last 80 years. Tiny wars since? Yeah numerous. No massive wars like the World Wars of the 20th century though. At least not yet.

@@CJ87317: You're praising the Federal Reserve? I bet you're in love with the IRS too. Man, I never thought I'd meet someone who was so warped. Supporting America's roll ib destroying so many once independent nations is disgusting.

He is viewed positively in Europe because when he *finally* decided to join WWI it was the fresh American troops that helped turn the tide of the war in favor of the Entente Powers. In their eyes he was the original savior from Austrian/German aggression/expansion

Is being remembered always a good thing? For example, a certain German chancellor who ruled in the 1940s is one of the most recognizable figures in history.

Let me tell you, in Lithuania we certainly aren't thought in schools about Wilson's US politics, i had no idea on his stance on racism, just his role in WW1 and immediately afterwards, so the majority if knows something about him, it is positive.

We'll get to all of the presidents eventually.

Taft was actually an alright President. He carried on a lot of Roosevelt's policies, and even broke up more monopolies and trusts than Roosevelt. The only downside I can think of was 'dollar diplomacy' which was 50/50 in its effectiveness.

@@m3rl707 Roosevelt really should have just either tried to negotiate with Taft or accept waiting until 1916 to run.

Sounds like Biden from Day 1 in office (actually during basement campaign).

Indeed he is... A lot of things happened in his administration that restrains our rights today... A man that can be considered as ""notorious"; a designation that swings both ways...

Reading this comment, I just had a flashback to Ollivander from Harry Potter. "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things--terrible, yes, but great." 🤣

"WIIILLLLSSSSOOONNNN!!!!" 🔥

To certain Americans

Or vlogging through history absolute hatred towards him

Poor Millard Fillmore

Easily places in the top five, doesn't he? While I have one or two I consider worse, hello there Jackson, it really is hard not to place Wilson pretty high on that list.

I mean for me Wilson would be one of the greatest presidents if he wasn’t the worlds greatest racist

@@night6724 Tell that native Americans or to African Americans. Heck you can tell that to Supreme Court, since he is the only president to openly disobey supreme court verdict.

@@kayzeaza i guess you love the invention of the income tax and federal reserve. f*ck that.

As long as you cross reference friend. Of course you can't always include everything in around 20minutes but after watching over 20 finished products I'd say there is obvious slant to the priority of info given.

Thanks for the sub and the love, but Chester is right. Check out the source list to learn about and get a more complete picture. Our writers can't fit everything in about a person so many things get left on the cutting room floor, and we even make mistakes sometimes (or so the comment sections tell me).

@@Biographics thanks a lot man I appreciate it I mean we don't always get it right every time but the content is always worth it

When allegedly his wife might’ve been the one actually running things

It is rumored that his wife's secretary sent the memo to Tennessee to request a last-minute vote. She was a suferigist who knew about Wilson's incapacity. If Mrs. Wilson suspected her, the fact that she knew Woodrow wasn't running the country made her impossible to be targeted.

Did you tell them it was educational?

@@Biographics of course, it would have been a lie.

IANAL but you might have an employment case against them. 😂

That sucks but at at least it was a good video.

Hand of god

@@sandybarnes887 with the goals he scored that day it might just be the most iconic performance of all time

@@andrewgilbertson595 you meen he played soccer?

We'll get to them all eventually.

@Fries I would love to see a biographics video on Charles Evans Hughes

Imagine causing so much damage, it lingers for 100+ years

@@hozonkai9967 Imagine causing so much damage, and it lingers for 100+ years and the victims of his actions continue to support his party.

@@joeclaridy It's not the same party in hardly any aspect except the name. It's not a whole lot better, but just the apparently daily reminder that Democrats and Republicans have long since swapped places in most of their flagship ideologies.

@@semaj_5022 no its the same party. They just got better at branding and marketing their message to the masses.

@@joeclaridy Dude. Just stop. Intelligent people know the truth about the parties swapping.

The issue is I don’t even think Wilson did it because of any prejudices he had. Rather, he did it because he knew that it was the rest of his own party that hated them. He was openly opposed to many of the actions taken against the black community, such as lynchings, based on his upholding of law and order, which would have placed him in conflict with more radical and highly influential members of his own party. If anything, his methodology was more along the lines of instituting segregation as a means to prevent racial conflict rather than any prejudices he held. The problem, of course, is we don’t know his personal views all that well. We know some of them, but they are always stained with a strong sense of devil’s advocacy that he likes to play.

What type of work did she do to convince him?

The Ardeal was particularly difficult, as there were and still are many Hungarians there!

YES!

His international accomplishments weighed against his racist domestic policies

and here I think we have the source for at least half of the crap Wilson gets. Its a right-wing conspiracy. The right has been brainwashing themselves into believing the delusions that you just spewed about progressives and democrats. So they cling to the actions of one racist democrat from a hundred years ago to convince themselves that there creepy conspiracy theories are true.

You can reasonably admire some efforts while despising others, observing the nuance inherent in all humans. Make no mistake, I'm not defending any of the mans actions, I simply believe that ignoring the good someone did because they were imperfect or in Wilsons case DEEPLY flawed is foolish and will never allow us to move forward in a meaningful way.

I couldn't agree better

You can not be blamed for not knowing this, since our school books in the fifties were written by authors like Henry Steele Comanger, who called black people "Sambos" and whitewashed race history to the point of near total omission when it came to black history.

It's only logical that a big gov't man that distrusts individualism would also harbor racist thoughts.