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After helping to win the first World War and sending the United States into the forefront of the world’s leading powers, Woodrow Wilson had been touring his country, attempting to fight his way into the League of Nations despite the opposition of Republican leaders.  President Wilson was strong-willed and felt that God had placed him in the White House and destined him to lead the country.  When he received the Democratic nomination for President at the Democratic convention held in Baltimore, Wilson declared, “I am a Presbyterian and believe in predestination and election.  It was Providence that did the work in Baltimore.”  And, shortly after his election in 1912 after less than one term as Governor of New Jersey, Wilson told the chairman of the Democratic National Committtee, “I wish it to be clearly understood that I owe you nothing.  Remember that God ordained that I should be the next President of the United States.  Neither you or any other mortal could have prevented that.”

This was the man that led the United States into World War I and went to Paris in 1919 to negotiate the treaty that resulted in peace.  Wilson never felt differently about what his fate was.  He felt that he was doing God’s work.  He felt that he was right and everyone else was wrong.  Even King George V of Great Britain said that Wilson was, “An entirely cold academic professor — an odious man…I could not bear him.”

On the morning of October 2, 1919, God’s will had led Woodrow Wilson to an entirely different place.  For that morning, the most powerful man in the world, the 28th President of the United States, was lying on the floor of a bathroom in the White House.  Unconscious, paralyzed, and bleeding from cuts on his nose and his temple, the President was incapacitated and would be for the remainder of his Presidency. 

And that’s when the cover-up began.

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