The President Says

“THE PRESIDENT SAYS:”

“And THEN, the loneliness! The loneliness of the
responsibility because of the loneliness of the power, which
no one CAN share. But in the midst of it I knew there was
one who DID share—EVERYTHING—a lovely lady who
has given herself to me, who is my own, who is part of me,
who makes anxieties light and responsibilities stimulating,
not daunting, by her love and comprehension and ex-
quisite sympathy . . . the whole divine partnership trans-
forming everything, the Constitution of the United States
itself included . . . “
Pres. Wilson to Edith Galt Wilson, 8/14/15

Because he was in ill health at the end of his Presidency and life, Woodrow Wilson never wrote a history of his presidency. He did, however, leave behind personal letters to the three women in his life, his first wife Ellen, a friend named Mary Peck, and his second wife, Edith Bolling Galt.

Woodrow Wilson ...