Word: woodrow
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Bush, unlike Professor Woodrow Wilson or even self-taught Harry Truman, is no historian. But he has never been beyond the shadow of conflict. As a young man, he remembers, he was "a little bit" aware as the Nazi armies overran Europe. "But the whole concept of the real atrocities and the things now that history so vividly records weren't driven home every single day to America," he says. "You've got to remember that in the end of the '30s there was kind of an isolationist fervor in some quarters. People saying, 'Hey, that...
Every time the U.S. has fought a major war in this century, its goals have included the defense of a principle larger and nobler than its own self- interest. "What we demand," said Woodrow Wilson in 1918, "is that the world be made fit and safe to live in." Safety meant the protection of all nations, not just the U.S., "against force and selfish aggression...
Hence the search for another way to avoid the crushing burdens of superpower responsibility. The search has borne fruit. The newest panacea for getting us off the hook has been found: the U.N., multilateralism, collective security. Woodrow Wilson's great dream that the world would respond to aggression by acting collectively rather than having to rely on a policeman (i.e., us) is finally coming true...
...surface there is not much about Bill Mathers to bring to mind Augustus McCrae or Woodrow Call, the gritty cattle drivers of the epic novel and television mini-series Lonesome Dove. Too much civilization has piled up in the corners of Mathers' face and body...
...predecessor, Thomas Kean, left the state with a $592 million deficit this year and a shaky economic future. "Florio didn't create the fiscal crisis, and he's made a strong case for solving it," says Richard Roper, director of the program for New Jersey affairs at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School. "As a result, New Jersey is willing to meet him halfway...