wilson believed that monopoly , butin it of itself, bad i'll monopoly should be broken up. it's ironic that in the matter of foreign policies, which were soon to be paramount in the nation's interest, it scarcely entered this campaign at all. when the votes were counted, was elected the 28th president of the united states, to embark upon one of the most significant administrations of that office. before we turn to an examination of the crucial events in his tumultuous years, we should look at the forces of which influenced wilson's development, and which worked to a greater or less degree to determine his position as president. there was the fact that wilson was a southerner. he was the first person from that region to occupy the white since who, the person never got it, by any case, the person with zachary taylor, the civil war. it was pointed out later and he seemed to think of himself that he was not a southerner since he lived only a small part of his life in the south. wilson liked to play with words and he replied, yes, which we must remember a man's routing is more i