Word: axson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...love me in my every humour? Or would you prefer to think of me as always dignified?" wrote Woodrow Wilson to his first wife, Ellen Louise Axson, during their courtship. "I am afraid it would kill me," he added, "to be always thoughtful, sensible, dignified and decorous." But until a collection of 1,458 love letters to "Miss Ellie Lou" was presented to Princeton University by the couple's youngest daughter, Mrs. Eleanor McAdoo, 72, the world's image of Wilson was just that. Covering a span of 31 years, from their first meeting until Mrs. Wilson...