Old Diplomacy

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Woodrow Wilson.

Born in Virginia in 1956 and raised in Georgia then later on South Carolina, Wilson had spent his early childhood in the times of the civil war affecting most of his early academic years where he heard to deal with the realities of home education. By profession he was a lawyer who dropped out of the university to study on his own but later on passed the George bar examination. With his enthusiasm law would become dull for him and he then preferred politics where Wilson would join the Johns Hopkins University for a P.H.D degree in history and political science. It was during his time here that his political prowess would be known all over and was approached by New Jersey Democrats who wanted him to run for Governor.

Wilson was enemy to dictatorship at party level, it was here where he fore saw a law of scrapping the old method which party bosses had immense powers and would nominate candidates of their choice to run for elective positions instead of fair decisions where delegates would vote in people of their liking. It didn’t take long for Wilson become president as in the year 1912 he was inaugurated in a tightly contested match with the republicans. Although Woodrow Wilson last moments in office challenged with troubles of sickness and failure of support by his own people to help him pass his visionary 14 point he is one of Americas greatest presidents up to this moment as his domestic program helped in the expansion of the role played by the federal government in the management of economy, protection of the citizens interests and his vision in foreign policy of America has helped play a big role in the world over. His regime was widely revered for its fight in tariff reduction, reform of the banking and monetary system, and new laws to weaken abusive corporations and to restore economic competition.

The Old Diplomacy

But the real fight was to start only two years later after he had been in office,...