On this day in history, 62-year-old President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke and is completely incapacitated. Oh—and he was a full decade younger than current Presidential candidate John McCain is now. Just sayin’.

Since Alaska had not yet been invented and was unable to produce any over-qualified Vice Presidential candidates, Wilson’s wife Edith stepped in and took control of the situation.

The President and Her Husband

Wilson, a Democrat, had been aggressively promoting the League of Nations and Edith felt the vehement Republican opposition had led to his health problems. (NOTE: This famous opposition is why UN hater John Bolton still wears a “1919 tribute mustache.”) She refused to let anyone see him and personally screened, and sometimes signed, all of his paperwork.

This behavior, combined with her philanthropic efforts to the “Just Say ‘No Thank You’ to The Chinaman’s Opiates” program, made her the Nancy Reagan of her day.

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