In my post about seditious speech, I was going to comment how President Woodrow Wilson managed to turn the country from isolationism, (Wilson was elected in 1916 on a promises to keep the US out of the war), to rabid support of the first world war - in about 6 months.
And how he managed to keep the war popular, even though it was fought in the middle of the 1917–1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. (Which is thought, by some, to have originated at an US Army base in Kansas.) According to the Centers for Disease Control up to 50 million people died in the pandemic worldwide.
Yet, as I know one of my friends would want me to say, Wilson should also be known for the passage of the Federal Reserve Act.
See here for a picture of the announcing passage of the Federal Reserve Act.
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