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* [[Sucky School]]: He was responsible for the creation of [[American Educational System|a government school system]] with the intent to create factory workers, rather than an educated populace. This trope was the result.
* [[Values Dissonance]]: He segregated the government racially. When blacks complained about it, he said "If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it." He was also unabashedly anti-immigrant and criticized Irish immigrants harshly.
** He also launched the Espionage Act of 1918, which punished "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" against the US government that served the purpose of arresting those against [[World War I]]. This order was
** Some argue that he was highly racist even ''for his own time.'' Of course, he was born during [[The American Civil War]] in Virginia, not too far from the Confederate capital at Richmond, so...what do you expect?
*** Well, when you set desegregation back a good few decades. In the case of the Navy, he barred them from a service that was at times more than 1/3 African American going back to the revolutionary war.
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* He appears several times and dies prematurely in 1915 in ''[[Swarm On the Somme]]''.
* Gus Dewar, [[Loads and Loads of Characters|one of the main characters]] in Ken Follett's [[Doorstopper]] novel ''Fall of Giants'', works for President Wilson.
* He (or rather, his ghost) shows up in [[The Venture Brothers]] to [[
* ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]'' contains a quote from him on an intertitle.
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