On this day in 1856 -- birthday of 28th president

from WRITER's ALMANAC (Minn. Public Radio daily list serv sent by Garrison Keillor):

It's the birthday of the 28th president, Woodrow Wilson, born in Staunton, Virginia (1856). He started his career as a professor, became governor of New Jersey, and then president.


He said, 'A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.'

And, 'If you want to make enemies, try to change something.'

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His major effort was to mobilize the U.S. Public to enter World War I:  (from NOBEL Prize winner Biography)
He mobilized a nation - its manpower, its industry, its commerce, its agriculture. He was himself the chief mover in the propaganda war. His speech to Congress on January 8, 1918, on the «Fourteen Points» was a decisive stroke in winning that war, for people everywhere saw in his peace aims the vision of a world in which freedom, justice, and peace could flourish.


http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1919/wilson-bio.html