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...Gary Grayson, which contained many a clinical detail that Grayson had discreetly left out of his own book about Wilson, published in 1960. Though his history sometimes reads like soap opera, Smith is a conscientious researcher, as Historian Allan Nevins acknowledges in an admiring introduction. Biographer Smith demonstrates that Edith Wilson was much more powerful than anyone has suspected, and her husband much more incapacitated...
...Edith outlived her husband and died in 1961. In all that time, she had very little to say about her role in the White House and she refused all interviews. Nor did she mellow toward her enemies. At 85, she still referred to Henry Cabot Lodge as "that stinking snake...
Protected from Politics. The descendant of a proud patrician but impoverished Virginia family, Edith Boiling Gait came to Washington with her first husband, who was a jeweler. When Gait died, she took over the jewelry shop. Though not active in Washington society, Edith met the President in 1915 through a mutual friend. Wilson's first wife had died less than a year before, and he was charmed by Edith. She was gay, outgoing, voluble. The prim schoolmaster began to clown in front of her. He was heard warbling, "O you great big beautiful doll." Eight months after they...
Only Wilson's private secretary, Joe Tumulty, his doctor, Admiral Cary Grayson, and Edith knew his true condition. For five months Wilson lay flat on his back. His wife had to read to him. If a document needed his signature, his wife guided his trembling hand. His face was set in a senseless smile. At times, he would cry inconsolably. In contrast to the almost embarrassingly candid reports on Eisenhower's physical condition, Wilson's entourage of doctors constantly issued bland, reassuring medical bulletins...
...Cabinet soon learned to its horror that Wilson planned to run again, and his wife was as eager as he. Democratic chieftains frantically tried to dissuade Wilson, but there was no convincing him-or Edith. By careful maneuvering, they managed to keep Wilson's name from being put before the Convention, and James Cox was nominated. When Wilson heard the news, he burst into a stream of obscenities. Cox campaigned as an all-out backer of the League, but Wilson considered the League his personal possession and would do nothing to help Cox. He was sure Harding would lose...