Was Woodrow Wilson Blackmailed To Declare War On Germany? Wurde Woodrow Wilson erpresst, um Deutschland den Krieg zu erklären?

Above, Edith Bolling Galt, "Pocahontas", Wilson's paramour whom he eventually married; Mary Hulbert Peck was another Wilson paramour; they met in Bermuda. Peck was a married woman. 

Some things like blackmail and corruption never change in politics!

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Woodrow Wilson married Ellen Axon in 1885. Ellen, in addition to being a gifted professional artist, was exceptionally smart and educated, and the marriage was steady until around 1906. After that, the couple had a few trying years. Ellen’s nephew, his wife, and their two-year-old son drowned in an accident, while her brother began to struggle with severe depression. Years earlier, Ellen’s father had been committed to a mental institution, and eventually committed suicide, so the plight of her brother was very disturbing. Unable to handle not having his wife’s full attention, Wilson went to Bermuda on his own in 1907 and 1908. There, he met Mary Peck.

The relationship with Mary grew from friendship into a “dalliance,” devastating Ellen and leaving Woodrow “guilt-stricken.” Ellen once said that the relationship with Peck was the only unhappiness her husband had ever given her, while Woodrow himself admitted to “a passage of folly and gross impertinence” where he had put aside “standards of honorable behavior.”

When Ellen died in August 1914, Wilson was utterly devastated. But he was unsuited for single life and began seeing a widow named Edith Galt in early 1915. Wilson’s advisers did not approve, believing the public would hold the relationship against him. The spreading gossip wasn’t helped when the Washington Post accidentally noted that “the President has been entering Edith Bolling Galt regularly.” Obviously, “entering” was intended to be “entertaining,” but the damage was done. A popular joke of the era poked fun at the situation:

Question: “What did Mrs. Galt do when the President of the United States proposed to her?”
Answer: “She fell out of bed.”

The relationship was soon in further jeopardy as the Mary Peck rumors started swirling. Edith, pictured below on the left, married him anyway in late 1915. Wilson was re-elected despite the scandal.