Woodrow Wilson As I Know Him

Woodrow Wilson As I Know
Him [with accents]

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him, by
Joseph P. Tumulty Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be
sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading
or redistributing this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook.
This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project
Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit the
header without written permission.
Please read the "legal small print," and other information about the
eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is
important information about your specific rights and restrictions in how
the file may be used. You can also find out about how to make a
donation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved.
**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts**
**eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since
1971**
*****These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of
Volunteers!*****
Title: Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him
Author: Joseph P. Tumulty
Release Date: May, 2005 [EBook #8124] [This file was first posted on
June 16, 2003]
Edition: 10

Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK,
WOODROW WILSON AS I KNOW HIM ***

E-text prepared by Anne Soulard, Charles Aldarondo, Tiffany Vergon,
Robert Laporte, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

WOODROW WILSON AS I KNOW HIM
BY
JOSEPH P. TUMULTY

To the memory of my dear mother Alicia Tumulty whose spirit of
generosity, loyalty, and tolerance I trust will be found in the lines of
this book

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
In preparing this volume I have made use of portions of the following
books: "The War The World and Wilson" by George Creel; "What
Wilson Did at Paris," by Ray Stannard Baker; "Woodrow Wilson and
His Work" by William E. Dodd; "The Panama Canal Tolls
Controversy" by Hugh Gordon Miller and Joseph C. Freehoff;
"Woodrow Wilson the Man and His Work" by Henry Jones Ford; "The
Real Colonel House" by Arthur D. Howden Smith; "The Foreign Policy
of Woodrow Wilson" by Edgar E. Robinson and Victor J. West. In
addition, I wish to make acknowledgment to the following books for
incidental assistance: "My Four Years in Germany" by James W.
Gerard; "Woodrow Wilson, An Interpretation" by A. Maurice Low; "A
People Awakened" by Charles Reade Bacon; "Woodrow Wilson" by
Hester E. Hosford; "What Really Happened at Paris," edited by Edward
Mandell House and Charles Seymour, and above all, to the public
addresses of Woodrow Wilson. I myself had furnished considerable
data for various books on Woodrow Wilson and have felt at liberty to
make liberal use of some portions of these sources as guide posts for

my own narrative.

PREFACE
Woodrow Wilson prefers not to be written about. His enemies may,
and of course will, say what they please, but he would like to have his
friends hold their peace. He seems to think and feel that if he himself
can keep silent while his foes are talking, his friends should be equally
stoical. He made this plain in October, 1920, when he learned that I had
slipped away from my office at the White House one night shortly
before the election and made a speech about him in a little Maryland
town, Bethesda. He did not read the speech, I am sure he has never read
it, but the fact that I had made any sort of speech about him, displeased
him. That was one of the few times in my long association with him
that I found him distinctly cold. He said nothing, but his silence was
vocal.
I suspect this book will share the fate of the Bethesda speech, will not
be read by Mr. Wilson. If this seems strange to those who do not know
him personally, I can only say that "Woodrow Wilson is made that
way." He cannot dramatize himself and shrinks from attempts of others
to dramatize him. "I will not write about myself," is his invariable retort
to friends who urge him to publish his own story of the Paris Peace
Conference. He craves the silence from others which he imposes upon
himself. He is quite willing to leave the assessment and interpretation
of himself to time and posterity. Knowing all this I have not consulted
him about this book. Yet I have felt that the book should be written,
because I am anxious that his contemporaries should know him as I
have known him, not only as an individual but also as the advocate of a
set of great ideas and as the leader of great movements. If I can picture
him, even imperfectly, as I have found him to be, both in himself and in
his relationship