* 1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Germany ( see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress ).

* 1917 – World War I: President Woodrow Wilson asks the U. S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.

It was the first motion picture to be shown at the White House. President Woodrow Wilson supposedly said the film was " like writing history with lightning.

" The British did not know quite what to make of President Woodrow Wilson and his conviction ( before America's entrance into the war ) that the way to end hostilities was for both sides to accept " peace without victory.

The US Federal Reserve was created by the U. S. Congress through the passing of The Federal Reserve Act in the Senate and its signing by President Woodrow Wilson on the same day, December 23, 1913.

Roosevelt and Pinchot supported the dam, as did President Woodrow Wilson.

* 1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.

* 1919 – President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of the U. S. Congress establishing most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park ( see Grand Canyon National Park ).

In 1915 the United States, responding to complaints to President Woodrow Wilson from American banks to which Haiti was deeply in debt, occupied the country.

After the United States entered the war in April 1917, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Hoover to head the U. S. Food Administration.

One month later, in March 1920, U. S. President Woodrow Wilson intervened to block the Paris agreement.

That success did not last long, as post-war domestic problems, Albanian resistance, and pressure from United States President Woodrow Wilson, forced Italy to pull out in 1920.

Instead, Gompers favoured a meeting in Paris which would only consider President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points as a platform.

* 1913 – President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.

* 1916 – U. S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.

* 1917 – World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for " peace without victory " in Europe.

* 1918 – President Woodrow Wilson announces his " Fourteen Points " for the aftermath of World War I.

He was a critic of President Woodrow Wilson and US entry into World War I.

United States President Woodrow Wilson and his adviser Colonel Edward M. House enthusiastically promoted the idea of the League as a means of avoiding any repetition of the bloodshed of the First World War, and the creation of the League was a centrepiece of Wilson's Fourteen Points for Peace.

President Woodrow Wilson had been a driving force behind the League's formation and strongly influenced the form it took, but the US Senate voted not to join on 19 November 1919.

* 1916 – President Woodrow Wilson sends 4, 800 United States troops over the U. S .- Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.

To meet their demands, President Woodrow Wilson ( a Presbyterian ), promised " a war to end all wars.

Lane invited Mather to come to Washington, DC to work with him to draft and see passage of the National Park Service Organic Act, which the 64th United States Congress enacted and which President Woodrow Wilson signed into law on August 25, 1916.

* 1919 – The U. S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.

* 1913 – President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, former President of the Ford Motor Company, comes from a generation different from that of Eisenhower's own first Secretary of Defense, Charles Wilson, who had been head of General Motors.

For example, President Wilson proposed the Treaty of Versailles after World War I after consulting with allied powers, but this treaty was rejected by the U. S. Senate ; as a result, the U. S. subsequently made separate agreements with different nations.

* 1812 – Henry Wilson, American politician 18th Vice President of the United States ( d. 1875 )

Democratic Party leaders saw him as a potential Presidential candidate, and President Wilson privately preferred Hoover as his successor.

James “ Tama Jim ” Wilson resided for much of the 1890s with his family at the Farm House until he joined President William McKinley ’ s cabinet as U. S. Secretary of Agriculture.

He soon became the head of the Division's Alien Enemy Bureau, authorized by President Wilson at the beginning of World War I to arrest and jail disloyal foreigners without trial.

Then, in 1985, Dole proposed an austere budget that barely passed in the senate with appendectomy patient Pete Wilson casting the tying vote and Vice President Bush casting the deciding vote.

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* Helen Marshall – Queens Borough President

Helen Clark said that the Fijian constitution only allowed the President to request the dissolving of Parliament if the Prime Minister no longer had the confidence of the Parliament and that this was clearly not the case.

President David Jayne Hill allowed the first woman, Helen E. Wilkinson, to enroll as a normal student, although she was not allowed to matriculate or to pursue a degree.

* May 22 – Helen Taft, Wife of President William Howard Taft ( b. 1861 )

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

Lesser known, but still historically notable pit bulls include Helen Keller's family dog " Sir Thomas ", Buster Brown's dog " Tige ", Horatio Jackson's dog " Bud ", President Theodore Roosevelt's Pit Bull terrier " Pete ", " Jack Brutus " who served for Company K, the First Connecticut Volunteer Infantry during the civil war and Sir Walter Scott's beloved " Wasp ".

Members of the City Council are Council President Ila Marie Lollar ( Ward 4, 2013 ), Vice President David Babula ( At-Large, 2015 ), Barry Conaway ( Ward 1, 2013 ), Doug Ghaul ( At-Large, 2015 ), Helen F. Hatala ( Ward 3 ), Jeanette Mercuri ( Ward 2, 2013 ) and, Suzanne Woodard ( At-Large, 2015 ).

The members of the Woodbine Borough Council are Council President Eduardo Ortiz ( 2013 ), Michael Benson ( 2012 ), Louis Murray ( 2012 ), Mary Helen Perez ( 2013 ), Clarence Ryan ( 2014 ) and Douglas Watkins ( 2014 ).

In 1887, while working as a professor of philosophy at Lake Forest College he married Helen Hayes Green, the daughter of the President of the Seminary.

Condolences were offered by many regional heads of state, although certain regional leaders such as Helen Clark, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, boycotted the funeral, whereas Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono declared a week of official mourning.

The two communities were often referred to as one " Corona / East Elmhurst " and is the childhood home of the first African American US Attorney General, Eric Holder, to Rap ( Hip Hop ) artists Kid n ' Play, Kwamé, Salt-n-Pepa and Kool G Rap, and is home to Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, New York State Assemblymember Jeffrion Aubry and Jimmy Heath recognized as a brilliant instrumentalist and a magnificent composer and arranger.

* Helen Marshall, Queens Borough President ( 2002-)

On August 15 the Baltimore City Council approved the Convention Center Hotel bill by a 9 to 6 vote, supported by then-City Council President Sheila Dixon, Vice President Stephanie C. Rawlings Blake, Paula Johnson Branch, Robert W. Curran, Kenneth N. Harris Sr., Helen L. Holton, Edward L. Reisinger, Rochelle " Rikki " Spector and Agnes Welch.

Kaku joined with others such as Helen Caldicott, Jonathan Schell, Peace Action and was instrumental in building a global anti-nuclear weapons movement that arose in the 1980s, during the administration of U. S. President Ronald Reagan.

He was the grandson of Attorney General and Secretary of War Alphonso Taft, and the son of President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft and Helen Herron Taft.

As Prime Minister and later State President, his greatest parliamentary opponents were Harry Schwarz and Helen Suzman of the Progressive Federal Party until 1987, when his former cabinet colleague Andries Treurnicht's new Conservative Party became the official opposition on a strictly anti-concessionist agenda.

In the summer, he was elected President of Plaid Cymru with 77 % of the vote over Helen Mary Jones.

Their eldest son, Theodore Douglas Robinson, married Helen Roosevelt, a half-niece of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Guest speakers such as Jay Thomas, authors Pat Conroy, Tony Hillerman, Sister Helen Prejean, Orson Scott Card, Dana Gioia, Chaim Potok, former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin, former New Orleans Mayor and alumnus Marc Morial, actor Jim Caviezel, theologian George Weigel, Jesuit Superior General Peter Hans Kolvenbach, ESPN announcer Mike Tirico, theologian and former U. S. Ambassador Michael Novak, and United States President William Howard Taft have addressed the student body.

Scidmore sent a note outlining her new plan to the new First Lady, Helen Herron Taft — the wife of President William Howard Taft — who had once lived in Japan and was familiar with the beauty of the flowering cherry trees.

During this time in Oxford he met his future wife, Helen Sarah Rushworth, who was President of the Oxford University Liberal Club.

The police action against the mothers and children of Lawrence attracted the attention of the nation, and in particular that of Helen Herron Taft, the wife of President Taft.