Woodrow Wilson

Wilson's Fourteen Points and his call for national self-determination made him a hero across Europe and the colonial world in 1919; crowds in Paris and Rome greeted him in their hundreds of thousands, and nationalists from Korea to Egypt appealed to his words. At home the Senate refused to join the League of Nations, and his reputation has since been weighed down by his segregation of the federal civil service. Princeton removed his name from its public policy school in 2020.