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There's a good chance the "History written in lightning" quote is apocryphal.

Since George Washington's farewell speech the foreign policy in this country has been isolationist, Woodrow Wilson almost single handedly changed that into the interventionist, "make the world safe for democracy", global police we've been for the past 100 years.

Not saying that was a good thing, not saying we should or should not take his name off the school , but you can draw a straight line from Wilson to the Iraq war, or Obama's drone strikes; Wilson's impact over the past 100 years was objectively immense.

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Indeed, Wilson started the trend of promising to keep the US out of a war, then reversing his position in office. At least Teddy Roosevelt was consistent in his interventionism.

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