America’s first woman president

“What the Wilsons did was just desperately terrible. It was really the grandest deception in the world. It’s really a very shocking story.”

From The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is (Part 3), an analysis of President Wilson’s stroke. Fascinating that the man could be incapacitated and remain in office. The study includes this:

The subsequent role played by the president’s doctors, his family and political friends was complex.  But it is clear that they were involved in a coverup.  Since the president was actually impaired — at least physically — what do you tell the Washington news corps?  Or do you deny it to yourself and others?  A determined group of gatekeepers intervened: Ike Hoover, Dr. Grayson and Edith Bolling Wilson, Wilson’s second wife, who became the de facto president of the United States.