BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Sheridan-Kalorama -- Woodrow Wilson House (2340 S St NW)

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. WILSON_110702_010.JPG: Dixie Guthrie, Glenn Guthrie @ Woodrow Wilson House
2. WILSON_110702_115.JPG: Glenn Guthrie, Dixie Guthrie in the kitchen during the tour
3. WILSON_110702_387.JPG: The microphone given to Wilson as a symbol of his 1923 radio address. Date: Saturday, November 10, 1923 Title: Wilson broadcasts a speech, "The Significance of Armistice Day", Wilson broadcasts a speech, "The Significance of Armistice Day", at 8 P.M over microphones placed in his S Street library. It was his last national address. Wilson had been asked by League of Nations supporters to deliver a short radio address on the eve of the 5th anniversary of Armistice Day. Wilson agreed. On the day of the speech he had a bad migraine but a little after 8 pm he came down to his library on S Street to give his short speech. Wilson was introduced at 8:28 p.m. and began to speak three minutes later. Three stations carried the speech which was heard over much of the U.S., as far west as Denver. The stations were WEAF in New York, WCAP in Washington, and WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island. WCAP noted that speakers had been installed in auditoriums in various towns in Texas so that audiences there could listen to Wilson's speech. This was the first remote radio broadcast made by a national figure. Wilson's address was short and when audiences heard his voice it was the first time that much of the public was made aware of how weak Wilson had become. ... This is the text of Wilson's address: The anniversary of Armistice Day should stir us to great exaltation of spirit because of the proud recollection that it was our day, a day above those early days of that never-to-be-forgotten November which lifted the world to the high levels of vision and achievement upon which the great war for democracy and right was fought and won; although the stimulating memories of that happy time of triumph are forever marred and embittered for us by the shameful fact that when the victory was won-won, be it remembered-chiefly by the indomitable spirit and ungrudging sacrifices of our incomparable soldiers-we turned our backs upon our associates and refused to bear any responsible part in the administration of peace, or the firm and permanent establishment of the results of the war-won at so terrible a cost of life and treasure-and withdrew into a sullen and selfish isolation which is deeply ignoble because manifestly cowardly and dishonorable. This must always be a source of deep mortification to us and we shall inevitably be forced by the moral obligations of freedom and honor to retrieve that fatal error and assume once more the role of courage, self-respect and helpfulness which every true American must wish to regard as our natural part in the affairs of the world. That we should have thus done a great wrong to civilization at one of the most critical turning points in the history of the world is the more to be deplored because every anxious year that has followed has made the exceeding need for such services as we might have rendered more and more evident and more and more pressing, as demoralizing circumstances which we might have controlled have gone from bad to worse. And now, as if to furnish a sort of sinister climax, France and Italy between them have made waste paper of the Treaty of Versailles and the whole field of international relationship is in perilous confusion. The affairs of the world can be set straight only by the firmest and most determined exhibition of the will to lead and make the right prevail. Happily, the present situation in the world of affairs affords us the opportunity to retrieve the past and to render mankind the inestimable service of proving that there is at least one great and powerful nation which can turn away from programs of self-interest and devote itself to practicing and establishing the highest ideals of disinterested service and the consistent maintenance of exalted standards of conscience and of right. The only way in which we can worthily give proof of our appreciation of the high significance of Armistice Day is by resolving to put self-interest away and once more formulate and act upon the highest ideals and purposes of international policy. Thus, and only thus, can we return to the true traditions of America. The above is from http://www.woodrowwilsonhouse.org/index.asp?section=timeline&file=timelinesearch_day&id=612
4. WILSON_110702_390.JPG: Movie projector. Date: Thursday, February 18, 1915 Title: The Birth of a Nation is shown at the White House. On the evening of February 18 Thomas Dixon and a film crew previewed "Birth of a Nation" to Wilson, his family, and Cabinet members and their families in the East Room of the White House. Dixon was a childhood friend of Wilson's, and the film was based on Dixon's 1905 novel "The Clansman" which portrayed the post-Civil War Ku Klux Klan as heroes fighting against corrupt rule by the southern black race and white northerners. Dixon did not tell Wilson what the film was about beforehand, noting only that it was based on American history. In reality Dixon and the film's director, D.W. Griffith, hoped that by screening the film before the President, that they could prevent censorship at the film's showing in the North. In years since, it has become a common belief that Wilson told Dixon "It is like writing history with lightening. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true." The authenticity of this quote is doubtful. It first appeared in an secondary source in 1937, and was never mentioned by Dixon in his unpublished autobiography. The last surviving eyewitnesses from the February 18 screening told historian Arthur Link that Wilson was silent during the showing, and left without saying anything once the film was over. WP, Feb. 20, 1915 footnote. The Wilson Birthplace in Staunton, Virginia, owns Wilson's program for the movie, which appears to have been crumpled into a ball. If Wilson did this, it would have been unusual, as the other surviving programs in his belongings were well-treated. Most importantly, Wilson did not endorse the "Lost Cause" myth of the South during the Civil War and told friends that he thought the South was much better off having lost the war. His histories of Reconstruction, written while a professor at Princeton, portray the Klan as nether heroes or villains, but as an understandable result of the ongoing chaos of the post-war years. While this is far milder than modern interpretations, it is still a long way from Dixon's hero-worship of the Reconstruction Klan. At the time Dixon claimed that both Wilson and Supreme Court Chief Justice Edward White (a confederate veteran) had seen the film and liked it. Justice White ordered Dixon to stop claiming that he endorsed the film, or else, White threatened, he would publicly denounce the film. Wilson neither publicly denounced nor endorsed the film, but on April 28 1915, Wilson told his secretary Joseph Tumulty to tell anyone who asked "the President was entirely unaware of the character of the play before it was presented and has at no time expressed his approbation of it. Its exhibition at the White House was a courtesy extended to an old acquaintance." The Klan was reborn in 1915 in Georgia, partly as a result of "The Birth of a Nation." Wilson wanted nothing to do with the reborn group. In March 1923 ... Wilson wrote to a friend about the reborn Klan "no more obnoxious or harmful organization has ever shown itself in our affairs." ... The above from http://www.woodrowwilsonhouse.org/index.asp?section=timeline&file=timelinesearch_day&id=1229
5. WILSON_110702_545.JPG: When I think of the flag which our ships carry, the only touch of color about them, the only thing that moves as if it had a settled spirit in it, -- in their solid structure; it seems to me I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice and strips of blood spilt to vindicate these rights, and then, -- in the corner a prediction of the blue serene into which every nation may swim which stands for these things. Woodrow Wilson
6. WILSON_110702_578.JPG: The bed where Wilson died
7. WILSON_110702_593.JPG: It's my horrible photo of it but note that this was drawn by Edith
8. WILSON_110702_670.JPG: Wilson State Service
9. WILSON_110702_684.JPG: Medical care, Blerancourt, 1919 With a hospital in Blerancourt staffed by French and American physicians and nurses, the committee was well equipped to deliver a range of essential medical services. Dispensary days were scheduled in various villages, the medical staff generally setting up shop in a private home. "The scanty furniture is pushed back against the walls," one doctor explained, "a bare table is placed for our work, and the interested villagers, mostly women and children, crowd into the one room." "Two of our doctors vaccinated 70 persons in 25 minutes." -- Newsletter of the American Committee, 23 November 1918
10. WILSON_110702_691.JPG: Furniture distribution, Blerancourt, 1919 Several photographs feature a young, smiling volunteer, dressed in a crisp white shirt and hat and chatting with locals. Here the photographer has positioned her strategically among a group of peasants, with a poor child perched atop a wheelbarrow, confronting the viewer. The panel over the doorway, painted with the committee's name in French, reinforced the fund-raising goal of the photograph. "As soon as they have some sort of living quarters, we step in and supply them with household utensils -- furniture, bedding, stoves, kitchen utensils -- and farm tools as well as clothing and food." -- Margaret Stevenson, volunteer, 1917
11. WILSON_110702_697.JPG: The Blerancourt seed store Blerancourt, 1919 A new supply of seed was essential to the renewal of agricultural production in the devastated ragions, and the committee actively sought donations from the United States. Even American children were encouraged to do their part: growing sunflowers and collecting seeds to be planted in France for chicken feed or bagging small quantities of rice, barley and beans to send abroad. "Put them into cheese-cloth bags, one quart each, label carefully, pack in boxes and send to us by parcel post. We will forward them by hand to France so as to insure prompt delivery and planting." -- Newsletter of the American Committee, 22 February 1919
12. WILSON_110702_702.JPG: A committee truck makes rounds Chavigny, 1919 Motor vehicles were indispensable to the American volunteers. From the committee's five regional centers, volunteers fanned out over 150,000 acres to some 130 villages, driving Model T Fords and Dodge trucks over pockmarked roads to deliver supplies, visit refugees, and render essential services. "For the workers in the Aisne valley, the blanket-and-hot-coffee era is past and they are busy with everything from school-books to tractors." -- Alexander Woolcott, 1920
Wikipedia Description: Woodrow Wilson House
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The Woodrow Wilson House was the residence of the Twenty-Eighth President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson. Located in Washington, D.C. at 2340 S Street NW on Embassy Row, the president lived there after his second term as president. On February 3rd, 1924, Wilson died in an upstairs bedroom. Today the home is owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and operated as a museum.

History:

President Woodrow Wilson bought the home on Embassy Row in the last months of his second term as President of the United States as a gift to his wife, Edith Bolling Wilson. He presented the deed to the house to her in December of 1920, all the while he had never actually seen the home in person. The former president and his wife moved into the home on Inauguration Day, which in 1921 was March 4th, not the current date of January 20th. Wilson made several modifications to the house which included: a billiard's room, a stacks for his library of over 8,000 books, an elevator, and a one story brick garage.

It was from the balcony of the house that Wilson addressed a crowd on November 11th, 1923, as his last public appearance. And while the Wilsons had few guests, former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George and former French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau did visit the ailing former president there. After Wilson's death in 1924, Edith Wilson lived there until her death on December 28, 1961. She bequeathed the property and many of its furnishings to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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