what was one of the main enduring criticisms of Woodrow Wilson is that he lacked what?
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flexibility!!!\n\ni really enjoy your questions by the way.
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The main weaknesses of the articles of confederation was:\n1. There was no executive, just the continental congress there was no one person at the helm.\n2. Every state had the right to establish foreighn policy.\n3. Every state had the right to produce and regulate currency.\n4. There was no body to solve disputes between states.
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Hoover did plenty in an attempt to counter the depression.  He started a number of programs, increased government spending, and a lot of these programs begun by his administration became cornerstones of the New Deal. He did, however, believe that most aid should come from local, volunteer organizations.  It was more the PERCEPTION that the depression was his fault that led to his downfall.  Consider this-the stock market crash occurred not long after he took office because of factors in place long before his rise to the presidency.  The biggest mistake, the one that certainly hurt our economy and the economy worldwide, was signing the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act into law.  Hoover is a fascinating man, who rose by his own merits to become one of the most well-respected and loved figures of his age, only to bear the brunt of the bad press from the Depression, and then slowly to come back into the public consciousness and die a beloved statesman.
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James Buchanan:  Did little or nothing to stem the tide of the coming Civil War. \n\nWarren G. Harding:  He let people around him get his administration into trouble...  cheated on his wife.. just a corruptable character. \n\nWilliam Henry Harrison:  Who in their right mind gives a two hour inaugration speech in a driving rain to contract pneumonia and die 31 days later? \n\nJohn Adams: He made it very difficult to become an American with the Alien and Seditions Act and put this country on track with another war with England in 1812.\n\nHerbert Hoover: His hands off attitude towards the economy after the stock market crash led to the Great Depression.
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Lack of strong military leaders.  Lincoln did not have military experience, most of the strong military schools were in the south, and military leaders from the South were more loyal to their home states than the Union Federal Government.  General Lee was a prime example.  He was asked by Lincoln to lead the Union army but turned it down to stay loyal to Virginia.\n\nThey also had to fight an offensive war, while the south could fight a war of attrition or a defensive war.  If there was no fighting going on then the south was winning, as it was the Union's duty to fight and try to bring the south back.  If they don't do anything that isn't happening.
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Teddy Roosevelt \nat least he had REAL Military experience.
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HW had a bad public image (perceived as a wimp); he attempted to carry on the Reagan era without establishing any needful agenda.  Ignored the economy which resulted in a tax program he promised would not be instituted (essentially sided with the Democrats in a spending deal that made many Republicans unhappy).  Wasted foreign policy initiatives e.g. invasion of Panama on the theory that getting rid of Noriega would stem the drug trade (obviously did not work); NAFTA (depending on your opinion of NAFTA.
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If this is about President Woodrow Wilson, then you're talking about how he acted toward World War 1 before the united states entered it. Wilson believed that the US could remain neutral, and not take part in it. However, german subs began sinking american ships, and British ships began capturing US vessels, which led to the US entering the war.
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Bill Clinton will probably be judged by most historians as an average president. His greatest domestic achievements--balancing the federal budget and reforming the federal welfare system to include work requirements--were both essentially defensive maneuvers. In foreign affairs, his record was decidedly mixed, with successful resolutions of the crises in Bosnia and Kosovo but major blunders in Somalia and Rwanda that cost literally hundreds of thousands of lives. Clinton also failed to act strongly against the growing threat of Islamist terrorism as embodied in Al Qaeda and of course his dalliances with Monica Lewinsky destroyed his entire second term's domestic agenda. Clinton's greatest accomplishment was no doubt doing everything he could to maximize the United States' economic growth during the extraordinary economic boom of the 1990's such as lowering the budget deficit and trying to make the economy serve the interests of the middle class in a time of rapid economic transition from an industrial to a service-based American economy that was having to come to grips with globalization. Clinton was a man gifted with extraordinary political skills and one of the finest minds since Thomas Jefferson held the office--but his own personal weaknesses ultimately meant that his was a presidency of which historians will always ask the question, "what could have been?"
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Coolidge was probably the quietest President we ever had having become president at the death of Warren G. Harding he went on to be elected in 1924 to his own term.  The era he was president was one of good prosperity.  He was known for years as being an honest politician.  How do we know he was honest? He never said anything.
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Well the depresion mainly, but also constitutional issues since the supreme court kept vetoing FDR's recovery bills. FDR threatened to pack the court with new "young blood" so then the court started to comply with him. People forget that this was a huge constitutional crisis at the time.
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He was president when the great depression started, I remember my dad talking about it and said he was at least partally to blame by his fiscal policys. Hey Bush take a lesson here supply side economics does not work, never has never will.
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Wilson's idea behind the Fourteen Points was to end the Great War in a way that might not lead to a Second Great War by eliminating what he saw as the systemic problems that led to the war. However, the greatest and ultimately insurmountable problem was the idea of "Peace Without Victors."\n\nOn November 11, 1918, as the guns fell silent, over 8 million men had been killed and literally trillions of dollars of property damage had been done. The damage to France's economic infrastructure was so great that it would not recuperate for decades, even if peace had lasted. The leaders of the victorious allies felt that morally and realistically they could not go to their suffering people and ask them to "chalk this up as a lesson learned." Someone had to pay, and at the end of the day, the war had to have accomplished something, no matter how far of a stretch that might be.\n\nWhen Wilson arrived at Paris for the peace conference, he was hailed all across Europe as a saviour of mankind. At the time, those accolades might even have been heartfelt from the people, but the leaders of the European allies knew the feeling would not last forever. The people had been suffering through four years of privation and nightmare and just wanted the war to end, no matter what the cost. As the years would go by, however, and they saw their neighbor on wooden legs and their children living in squalor, the people would very soon come to believe that their momentary feeling of forgiveness to the enemy was actually a moment of weakness, and come to the realization they had been tricked.\n\nAt Versailles, when Germany had withdrawn its army from France, her government was in chaos, her people in revolution and her allies pulled apart, the Western Allies dictated their terms.\n\n1-The war had to have accomplished something: The War Guilt Clause. Germany was forced to declare that the war had been entirely the fault of her government and their actions. The war had thus stopped a raging tyrant from conquering all of Europe and forcing his will on innocent people.\n\n2-Someone had to pay: Reparations. By declaring that the war was her fault, Germany found herself in the moral position of assuming the financial responsibility for the damages. This was vital to the Western Allies, because Germany was the only member of the Central Powers whose territory was still intact and whose industrial capacity was still in place. Austria, which had actually started the war, was torn to shreds and its industrial facilities were being looted by revolutionaries; the Turkish empire was in the hands of rebelling Arab tribes and occupying armies; Germany was forced to pay because she was the only one who COULD pay. The people of Germany were forced to sign a blank check: the Western Allies literally did not know the exact amount of the damage, and would fill it in later. Because France's economy was in ruins, Germany would pay in products, not in money.\n\n3-The next war had to be prevented: Military Concessions. By declaring that the war was her fault, Germany provbed she had been a danger to the safety of the world. The teeth of the wolf would be pulled. Her army would be gutted, her navy surrendered and she was to be denied the acquisition of modern weaponry. Large swaths of territory adjoining the border with France would be devoid of military activity, both offensive and defensive. Also, this would allow France to militarily occupy productive areas of Germany if she tried to default on her debt (France would occupy the Saar region because Germany had not delivered enough telephone poles that month!)\n\nIn the United States, the Fourteen Points was opposed for different reasons. An earlier answer is partly correct, Henry Cabbot Lodge did oppose the League of Nations in part because he had made a deal with Wilson not to use the War for political ammunition. When Wilson went to the conference he brought no Republicans with him, and when he ret
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History:\nEither of the Roosevelts as president - because they accomplished what they wanted to do. FDR gained the public confidence during depression and war. Teddy, although I don't agree with his imperialistic gains, for his efforts at expansion and the Panama Canal.\n\nToday: \nHe or she remains to be found
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Socially: Everyone ignored the ban on alcohol and partied a lot.  Economically: The stock market crashed and the economy plunged into a depression.  Politically: People blamed Hoover for the lack of jobs and money and elected FDR.
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William Edward Burghardt DuBois, to his admirers, was by spirited devotion and scholarly dedication, an attacker of injustice and a defender of freedom.\n\nA harbinger of Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism, he died in self-imposed exile in his home away from home with his ancestors of a glorious past—Africa.\n\nLabeled as a "radical," he was ignored by those who hoped that his massive contributions would be buried along side of him. But, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote, "history cannot ignore W.E.B. DuBois because history has to reflect truth and Dr. DuBois was a tireless explorer and a gifted discoverer of social truths. His singular greatness lay in his quest for truth about his own people. There were very few scholars who concerned themselves with honest study of the black man and he sought to fill this immense void. The degree to which he succeeded disclosed the great dimensions of the man."
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I don't think he had any great accomplishments, let alone any great ones.  He was one of the biggest do-nothing presidents of the 19th century!