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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« on: January 13, 2021, 05:04:33 PM »

I didn't understand Woodrow Wilson in the list. He created the Federal Reserve, he introduced the income tax, he supported the female suffrage amendment, he supported the League of Nations.

All the candidates in 1913, Wilson, Taft, and Roosevelt were in favor of establishing some sort of central bank.

Wilson had nothing to do with income tax other than being President when the Amendment that had been sent to the States four years earlier was finally ratified.

Wilson opposed the female suffrage amendment at first and only caved for political reasons.

As for the League of Nations, the only successful parts of it were existing international organizations that became member agencies of the League, and later on the United Nations.

Until Trump came along, I'd have easily said that Wilson was our worst President since the Civil War.
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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2021, 08:24:26 AM »

Pre-rebellion, Trump had a chance to viewed as a middling President in a few decades, but his actions pretty much ensured he'd be viewed as the worst President ever by any serious historian.
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