ONE OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT WHO MADE A IMPACT ON THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

The U .S . President : Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson 's is a complex personality . The world has declared him an intellectual giant as well as a great failure . He saw a dream that the League of Nations would help the world greatly in establishing peace , he put all his energies and intellect behind this endeavor but he was disappointed and got his dreams shattered in the end

In 1919 when Woodrow Wilson went to Europe , he received warm welcome and appreciation from the world . Europe received him as a blessing in disguise and

people deified him . He himself felt immensely exalted and venerated . But when he went back to this country again after three months , he was turned into a sick , shattered and lost man . A lot of friends had left him by that time and he made a score of enemies Fortune smiled and then felt angry on him

Nevins and Henry Steele Commager are of the view that

Woodrow Wilson was in many respects the most remarkable figure in American politics since Jefferson . A scholar and an intellectual unaccustomed to the hurly-burly of public life , he was nevertheless astute , hardheaded , and resourceful . A visionary and an idealist , he was at the same time the most thoroughly realistic and adroit political leader since Lincoln (p .386

When we look back in history we found that Woodrow Wilson appeared as an ambitious schoolteacher , who was reserved , dignified and a man devoid of warm human emotions and feelings . While in reality he was not like that Woodrow Wilson was intensely humane , loving and caring man . But he was very shy and his shyness kept him away from mingling freely with the people . He himself said that , I would give anything in the world if I were different , but I cannot make myself over

But he is not that cold all the time , once when he was in Bermuda he went for sailing on a boat just because he wanted to have a little pleasurable talk with a Negro boatman . At another occasion he enjoyed himself enormously by leading a cheering at a football match . Humane sparks blazed occasionally in this otherwise cold ice . Up to the age of eleven he did not went to school . But in spite of that he was the most learned man ever sitting in the four walls of white house . He enjoyed enormously reading the detective stories and found relaxation in this activity

This professor who loved reading immensely said that he has no interest in art . He also said that he would love to see a musical comedy than a Shakespearian play . He believed that he did not go to theater to gat dry lessons rather he go there simply to get himself entertained . The period that he remains American president , for almost every week he regularly went to the vaudeville shows . For a long time in his life he was very poor . It was very difficult for him to run a house solely depending on...