Franklin D Roosevelt, Under-Secretary for the Navy in the Wilson administration, claimed to have personally written the new constitution.

In response to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, the Reagan administration in the U. S. increased arming and funding of the Mujahideen thanks in large part to the efforts of Charlie Wilson and CIA officer Gust Avrakotos.

An ideological rift developed between the two men during their first term, leading Wilson to limit Marshall's influence in the administration, and his brand of humor caused Wilson to move Marshall's office away from the White House.

Immigrant groups who had made up an important part of the Democratic coalition, such as ethnic Germans and Irish, also voted for Harding in the election in reaction to their perceived persecution by the Wilson administration during World War I.

Debs, a forceful World War I antiwar activist, had been convicted under sedition charges brought by the Wilson administration for his opposition to the draft during World War I.

President Harding was very specific in commenting on the appointment of Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes, that the secretary would be the sole spokesman for the State Department ( as opposed to the Wilson administration ).

Union wages apparently had risen far above others under the Wilson administration.

Although Wilson promised African Americans ' fair dealing ... in advancing the interests of their race in the United States " the Wilson administration implemented a policy of segregation for federal employees.

Wilson also studied public administration, which he called " government in action ; it is the executive, the operative, the most visible side of government, and is of course as old as government itself ".

Yet Wilson insisted that " administration lies outside the proper sphere of politics " and that " general laws which direct these things to be done are as obviously outside of and above administration.

As Wilson put it, " public attention must be easily directed, in each case of good or bad administration, to just the man deserving of praise or blame.

Debs ' speeches against the Wilson administration and the war earned the undying enmity of President Woodrow Wilson, who later called Debs a " traitor to his country.

At one point, Wilson wrote: " While the flower of American youth was pouring out its blood to vindicate the cause of civilization, this man, Debs, stood behind the lines sniping, attacking, and denouncing them .... This man was a traitor to his country and he will never be pardoned during my administration.

Wilson made periodic attempts to mitigate inflation through wage-price controls, better known in the UK as " prices and incomes policy " ( as with indicative planning, such controls — though now generally out of favour – were widely adopted at that time by governments of different ideological complexions, including the Nixon administration in the United States ).

The British " retreat from Empire " had made headway by 1964 and was to continue during Wilson ’ s administration.

While Congress considered nationalizing the railroads on a permanent basis after World War I, the Wilson administration announced that it was returning the railroad system to its owners.

Passed during the Wilson administration, the legislation was introduced by Alabama Democrat Henry De Lamar Clayton Jr. in the U. S. House of Representatives, where the act passed by a vote of 277 to 54 on June 5, 1914.

As a politician he was parliamentary secretary in the House of Lords to the Minister of Technology from 1964 to 1966 in the Labour administration of Harold Wilson.

Bernays, working for the administration of Woodrow Wilson during World War I with the Committee on Public Information, was influential in promoting the idea that America's war efforts were primarily aimed at “ bringing democracy to all of Europe ".

The Wilson administration had merged the Colonial Office and the Commonwealth Relations Office in 1966 into the Commonwealth Office, which, two years later, was merged with the Foreign Office, to form the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ( FCO ).

" After the Bush administration repeatedly referenced the yellowcake claims as justification for war with Iraq, ambassador Wilson wrote a critical op-ed in The New York Times in which he explained the nature of the documents and the government's prior knowledge of their unreliability for use in a case for war.

King and Peter Wright were members of a group of thirty MI5 officers who wanted to stage a coup against the then crisis-stricken Labour Government of Harold Wilson, and King allegedly used the meeting to urge Mountbatten to become the leader of a government of national salvation.

Wilson said that should Carnahan be elected, he would like to appoint his widow, Jean Carnahan, to serve in her husband's place ; Mrs. Carnahan announced that, in accordance with what her husband would have wanted, she would serve in the Senate if he won the election.

Under the prodding of Governor-General Lord Gowrie, who wanted to avoid calling an election given the dangerous international situation, Coles and Wilson threw their support to Labor.

Wilson wanted to integrate the proposed graduate building into the same area with the undergraduate colleges.

Finally, despite the fact that Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson insisted that more than membership in an organization was required for a warrant, Hoover worked with more compliant Labor officials and overwhelmed Labor staff to get the warrants he wanted.

After more speeches against the Bill during early 1969 and with left-wing Labour MPs against Lords reform as well ( they wanted its abolition ), Harold Wilson announced on 17 April that the Bill was being rescinded.

Senators Charles Sumner and Henry Wilson of Massachusetts wanted the Republican Party to advocate constitutional amendments to prohibit slavery and to guarantee racial equality before the law.

In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson went to Spokane to speak in a Father's Day celebration and wanted to make it official, but Congress resisted, fearing that it would become commercialized.

However, he did gain the support of right-wingers, such as Denis Healey and Anthony Crosland, who wanted to prevent Wilson from being elected leader but who also didn't trust George Brown.

Wilson became a wanted outlaw before leaving for Texas.

Perry later observed that " we wanted Wilson to be the voice of sanity ; he has become John ".

Against Curzon's wishes, but on the advice of Sir George Milne, the commander on the spot, the CIGS Henry Wilson, who wanted to concentrate troops in Britain, Ireland, India and Egypt, and of Churchill ( Secretary of State for War ), the British withdrew from Baku ( the small British naval presence was also withdrawn from the Caspian Sea ), at the end of August 1919 leaving only 3 battalions at Batum.

After some uncertainty from Canty about what he wanted to do with his future, the trio regrouped and booked their first show at the Wilson Center in early September 1987.

Harold Wilson, during his second ministry from 1974 to 1976, lived in his home on Lord North Street because Lady Wilson wanted " a proper home ".

WKRP was given a new timeslot, one of the best on the network, following M * A * S * H. This allowed creator Hugh Wilson to move away from farcical radio-based stories, which is what CBS mostly wanted at the beginning, and start telling stories that, while not necessarily serious, were more low-key and character-based.

He was the only candidate put forward for the job by a six-owner search committee ( Wellington Mara, Lamar Hunt, Art Modell, Robert Parins, Dan Rooney, and Ralph Wilson ), however, a group of eleven newer owners who wanted more of a voice in the selection process abstained from voting, preventing Finks from receiving the nineteen votes necessary to become Commissioner.

Wilson did not get on with Haig and wanted to go on half pay but Haig thought this unacceptable for such an able officer in wartime.

Wilson confessed to Derby that he did not get on with Haig or Robertson and told Robertson he wanted to return to commanding a corps.

Brock Millman argued that the threat to stand for Parliament was blackmail to get a military job out of Lloyd George, but Keith Jeffery rejects this, arguing that Wilson would have been no threat as a new MP but as a military adviser was a useful rival to Robertson, whom by July 1917 French was telling Wilson Lloyd George wanted to remove.

Over lunch on 17 October Lloyd George wanted Wilson ’ s paper rewritten to remove “ all semblance of dictation ” by the new inter-Allied body.

That month Wilson defended Haig to Clemenceau and Foch, both of whom wanted him removed ( Clemenceau preferred Allenby as Haig ’ s replacement, Foch preferred Plumer ), telling Clemenceau that Haig was the right man for the “ bad times ” which were coming, although he was critical of Robertson.

Milner told Wilson ( 10 February ) that Lloyd George wanted to move Robertson to Versailles.

Wilson also wanted to reinforce the Near East-although not enough to satisfy Amery-lest Germany and Turkey were left free by the collapse of Russia to expand there, which would improve their position in any future war a decade hence.