POLS 1113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Eleanor Roosevelt, Nancy Reagan, Edward M. House
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Note: she did not support the suffrage movement. He had been a widower since 1914: she ran a jewelry business and drove one of the first electric cars, the president proposed a few months after they met. His political advisers thought the marriage coming so soon after his first wife"s death would hurt him in public opinion. In that era, women commonly refused first proposals. They were married in 1915, just before the start of wilson"s reelection campaign. Five months after his inauguration, president wilson asked congress to declare war on the axis powers, committing u. s. forces to what became known as world war i. Wilson ran for reelection with the campaign slogan he kept us out of the war. U. s. troops proved decisive the war ended little more than a year later in november 1918. President and mrs. wilson traveled to paris for the peace negotiations. Wilson became the first president to travel to europe.
