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Presidency of Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow Wilson 's tenure as the 28th president of the United States lasted from March 4, 1913, until March 4, 1921. He was largely incapacitated the last year and a half. He became president after winning the 1912 election. Wilson was a Democrat who previously served as governor of New Jersey.
After 30 years of Cigrand's advocacy, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed June 14 as Flag Day in 1916. (The United States Congress formally made the proclamation law in August 1949). Cigrand generally is credited with being the "Father of Flag Day," with the Chicago Tribune noting that he "almost singlehandedly" established the holiday.
— Woodrow Wilson “A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle, and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.” — George William Curtis
1956. [] "I still like Ike" – 1956 U.S. presidential campaign slogan of Dwight D. Eisenhower. "Peace and Prosperity" – 1956 U.S. presidential campaign slogan of Dwight D. Eisenhower. "Adlai and Estes – The Bestest" – Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver. "The Winning Team" – Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver.
A quote from Woodrow Wilson's History of the American People is included in the film's intertitles. Dixon had been a fellow graduate student in history with Wilson at The Johns Hopkins University and, in 1913, dedicated his historical novel about Lincoln, The Southerner , to "our first Southern-born president since Lincoln, my friend and ...
Flag Day was first proposed in 1861 to rally support for the Union side of the American Civil War. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential proclamation that designated June 14 as Flag Day. [4] On August 3, 1949, National Flag Day was officially established by an Act of Congress. [5]
The term was coined by President Woodrow Wilson [2] in his 1916 campaign that pledged to keep America neutral in World War I. A more isolationist approach gained prominence in the interwar period (1918–1939); it was also advocated by the America First Committee, a non-interventionist pressure group against U.S. entry into World War II. [3]
e. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. He was a progressive Democrat who previously served as the governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913 and as the president of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910.