Edith married the heir of a prominent jeweler in Washington, D.C. only after compelling him to endure a rather extended four-year courtship. Friendship with Woodrow Wilson's cousin led to 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 ...