Did Woodrow Wilson set the standard for the modern president?

They discussed this on The 104-Year-Old Mistake whistlestop podcast: Wilson preferred to be addressed as “Governor”, at least during his first term. (BTW, similarly, Ike preferred being addressed as “General”). read more

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was an American statesman and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and as Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913, before winning the 1912 presidential election. read more

Theodore Roosevelt, while redefining the modern president as a steward of the common good of the nation, continued the progressive tradition long associated with the party of Lincoln. Wilson took a party mired in Southern conservatism and big-city machine politics that had resisted William Jennings Bryan’s reform proposals and made its basic agenda progressive. read more