Welcome back, dear listeners. Today, Ginger dives into the Dead Asshole archives and dredges up another Nobel Prize winner and our very first president, Woodrow Wilson.
Not only did he carry on the great American tradition of f***ing everything up in Central America , turns out that one of our illustrious presidents was a racist! Who knew!
Citations
- https://www.politico.com/story/2012/12/woodrow-wilson-nobel-peace-prize-dec-10-1920
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/2716036?read-now=1&seq=7#metadata_info_tab_contents, The Journal of Negro HistoryVol. 44, No. 2 (Apr., 1959), pp. 158-173 (16 pages)
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/11/18/princeton-protesters-occupy-presidents-office-demand-racist-woodrow-wilsons-name-be-removed/
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/10/18/confounding-fathers
- https://millercenter.org/president/wilson/impact-and-legacy
- A Companion to Woodrow Wilson, Ross A. Kennedy, John Wiley & Sons, Jan 22, 2013
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson
- https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/20/9766896/woodrow-wilson-racist
- http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/160135
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917
The Void Will See You Now 
I learned quite a bit, smiled chuckled, and felt right at home. Six months in Europe? Really? Makes me want a hard cider.
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