Woodrow Wilsoni
Born 28 Dec 1856

Wilson's wartime record is among the worst for free speech: the Espionage Act of 1917 and Sedition Act of 1918 led to around 2,000 prosecutions, including Eugene Debs's ten-year sentence for an anti-war speech, and the Post Office barred radical publications from the mails. The Palmer Raids of 1919…

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