PRESIDENT WILSON RETURNS TO WASHINGTON NEAR A COMPLETE BREAKDOWN
Wichita, Kansas (JFK+50) On September 26, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson was scheduled to speak here in Wichita on his tour promoting the League of Nations and the Versailles Treaty but when the President's physician found Mr. Wilson close to a "complete breakdown," the speech was cancelled and the President's train returned to Washington.
President Wilson promoted a League of Nations at the Versailles Conference in Paris, but when the United States Senate blocked the treaty's ratification, the President took his case directly to the American people. His barnstorming train tour left the Nation's Capital on September 3rd.
President Wilson said that if the League failed... "I hate to think what will happen to the world."
By the time the President reached Wichita, he was complaining of blinding headaches. Back at the White House on October 2nd, the President suffered a stroke which left him paralyzed on the left side and with impaired vision. He would be confined to bed for weeks with only his wife and doctor permitted to see him.
SOURCES
"President Wilson Suffers a Stroke, 1919," www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/
"Today-100: September 27, 1919, America is big enough," www.whateveritisimagainstit.blogspot.com/
President & Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
The White House
June 1920
Photo by Harris & Ewing
Library of Congress Image
Wichita, Kansas (JFK+50) On September 26, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson was scheduled to speak here in Wichita on his tour promoting the League of Nations and the Versailles Treaty but when the President's physician found Mr. Wilson close to a "complete breakdown," the speech was cancelled and the President's train returned to Washington.
President Wilson promoted a League of Nations at the Versailles Conference in Paris, but when the United States Senate blocked the treaty's ratification, the President took his case directly to the American people. His barnstorming train tour left the Nation's Capital on September 3rd.
President Wilson said that if the League failed... "I hate to think what will happen to the world."
By the time the President reached Wichita, he was complaining of blinding headaches. Back at the White House on October 2nd, the President suffered a stroke which left him paralyzed on the left side and with impaired vision. He would be confined to bed for weeks with only his wife and doctor permitted to see him.
SOURCES
"President Wilson Suffers a Stroke, 1919," www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/
"Today-100: September 27, 1919, America is big enough," www.whateveritisimagainstit.blogspot.com/
President & Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
The White House
June 1920
Photo by Harris & Ewing
Library of Congress Image
