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benjamin harrison was keep the ball rolling. i'm jumping around a little bit, but it's sort of fun. woodrow wilson had potomac fever which something harry truman loved to quote. politics is adjourned was woodrow wilson's. watchful waiting was very closely associated with woodrow wilson first in his relationship to the dick dictatorship in mexo where there was a lot of feeling that we should go in and intervene in mexico where there was a fairly active and ugly dictatorship afoot, and wilson said, no, this is -- we're going to be, this is watchful waiting. we're going to wait and see. and once the world war started during world war i, that was attributed back to wilson, that he was using the term "watchful waiting." for whatever reason, watchful waiting is now familiarly used in diagnosis of certain illnesses where rather than treat them immediately, you go through a period of watchful waiting. so that's one of the more serious ones. some of them are capricious and interesting. you know, mckinley, william mckinley when the spanish-american war starting, mckinley's got the telephone, he's got the telegraph, he's got a room full of maps. h