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Is it true that President Woodrow Wilson’s wife Edith was the unofficial “acting president” after Woodrow suffered a stroke in 1919? If so, how did she manage to do this without public outcry? If not, who was in power while Woodrow was incapacitated?

by /u/CyborgAlgoInvestor in /r/AskHistorians

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