The First Lady Who Ran the United States for Eighteen Months After Her Husband's Stroke and Told No One
President Woodrow Wilson suffered a major stroke on 2 October 1919. His wife Edith concealed the severity for the remaining seventeen months of his term, controlling all access to him and deciding which papers reached his desk. Vice President Marshall was never informed. Historians have called it the longest period of executive concealment in American history.
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