Snuck into the top ten despite being unpopular with some of our panel who felt many of his goals were never realised. A radical first term included anti-trust legislation, tariff revision and the creation of the Federal Reserve. Wilson’s reputation, however, was built on his destruction of America’s cherished non-interventionist policy in his second term. He was reluctant to lead the US into the First World War, but was then instrumental in building a multi-lateral post-war consensus which included the League of Nations, even if Congress never allowed America to join it.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 3 November 2008 02:41 (seventeen years ago)