Copyright 1923 by The Atlantic Monthly Press, Inc. as
reprinted from THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY for August 1923. Printed by McGrath-Sherrill
Press, Boston. Bound by Boston Bookbinding Co., Cambridge. 4.5 X 6 inches
overall.
Edith Bolling Galt, (1872-1961)was a southerner and the widow of a
Washington jeweler. She and Wilson were married on December 18, 1915 after he
suffered a severe personal loss on August 6, 1914, with the death of his first
wife. 1919. He suffered a severe stroke and paralysis of the left side on
October 2, 1919. He never fully recovered. Wilson's stroke left him physically
incapacitated but his condition was not made public. Mrs. Wilson jealously
guarded her husband, and most likely feared that his resignation would sap his
will to live. To her he was "first my beloved husband whose life I was
trying to save ... after that he was the president of the United States."
As a result, his Cabinet members were denied access to him. His wife decided
what printed materials he could see, and his state papers became few and
unsatisfactory.
