It’s become almost an urban legend that Woodrow Wilson’s wife essentially became the acting president after his stroke, but it isn’t true. As researched in A. Scott Berg’s biography “Wilson” the president was still fully lucid and interacted with his cabinet – altho to a lesser extent. Edith neither created nor enacted polices of her own, but only relayed those of her husband.
It’s become almost an urban legend that Woodrow Wilson’s wife essentially became the acting president after his stroke, but it isn’t true. As researched in A. Scott Berg’s biography “Wilson” the president was still fully lucid and interacted with his cabinet – altho to a lesser extent. Edith neither created nor enacted polices of her own, but only relayed those of her husband.