With war raging in Europe and his beloved wife Ellen dead, Woodrow Wilson was ... himself to Edith Bolling Galt, a 42-year-old widow. Edith lived most of her life either within or near the ...

“I do think that at the end of 1919 and the beginning of 1920 to the degree that anybody was the chief executive of this country, it was Edith Wilson,” said Roberts. In October 1919, former ...