Chapter Twelve

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Electing a President

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STUNG BY HIS ELECTORAL disaster in November 1918, Woodrow Wilson sailed for Europe in early December to attend the Paris Peace Conference.

Teddy Roosevelt, certain to be nominated by the Republicans at their 1920 convention, fell ill and was hospitalized. On January 6, 1919, at the age of sixty-one, he died of a blood infection from an abscessed tooth—there were no antibiotics yet—and his death left his party without a clear favorite in the presidential race that was soon to begin.

After the 1918 electoral victory, ...

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