dr. kerry t. grayson, an admiral, who was woodrow wilson's personal physician and became a great confidante and political advisor, in fact. and they found just these trunk loads full of dr. grayson's papers and within them, he kept meticulous notes. he had the hand on the pulse of the president -- literally. he took notes in the last year of the wilson presidency when he collapsed and had a stroke kept a secret from the country. but also the years after that when he retired to washington here. again you see all of this humanizing detail, the most striking of which is this is a very sick man physically and ultimately mentally as well. a lot of this comes out in the grayson archive, its's quite something. >> you say he had 13 breakdowns? >> there were 13 collapses of some sort, usually physical of varying degrees going back to when he was a young man, in fact. and these were actually enumerated by sigmund freud. so take it with a grain of salt or a whole sack of salt. but freud did a study of woodrow wilson

dr. grayson's son. kerry t. grayson jr. i learned about wilson from both of them,again it's this humanizing element, they both gave me that thing. but it was a really caring man. this was a loving father. this was a man with real tenderness of the people in his lives. he was strict as get out.he could be vindictive if you crossed him. there were two or three of his best friends, he felt like they and he never spoke to them. >> colonel house? >> he's one of them. the closest friend when he was a princeton professor, who succeeded him is one of them. after hibbit betrayed wilson in a trustee meeting at princeton, wilson never spoke to him again. just shades him down. >> colonel wasn't a colonel. how did he get the name? >> colonel house, he was a colonel of a lot of -- i think i am even a tennessee colonel somewhere so you don't have to call me colonel. but if you wish, you may. but he -- he was an honorary colonel in texas. he was the son of a texan who had made a lot of money as a merchant among other things and a landowner

dr. grayson's son, yeah. he was a lovely man. he was the most gentlemanly virginia gentleman i have ever met. kerry t. grayson jr. it was this humanizing element that they gave me. this was a caring man who was a and had a real tenderness towards the people in his life. he can be strict. him, when he felt betrayed, he never spoke to them whenever saw them again. -- or never saw them again. , wholosest friends succeeded him as president of princeton, was one of them. wilson in arayed trustee meeting, wilson never spoke to him again. >> the colonel was not a kernel. how did he get the name? >> he was a tennessee colonel. colonel.to call me -- you do not have to call me colonel. he was an honorary colonel in texas. he was a landowner. politicsel house loved and became wilson's closest adviser in the white house. and in foreigny affairs. for years.nseparable colonel house betrayed him in paris during the peace conference. when wilson left the peace , and colonel house was there for every minute, they said goodbye and that was the last

dr. grayson stage-managed it very well. do not say exactly what they did, but whatever it was it -- enormously all successful, including the republican that would be most anxious said afterwards the president grasp his hand. that was impossible because the president couldn't move his left hand, but he was so taken with wilson's apparent animation. he made a lot of jokes. he loved to make puns and tell jokes and stories, and that came back relatively quickly, but the judgment was really put to a. >> we have a timeline of the president incapacitation. was september. it was not until december that the president took his first steps. it was in march of 1920 when he left the house for the first time. about the talk important decisions. his beloved league of nations was rejected by the senate. in april of 1920 the president had his first cabinet meeting. it is almost unthinkable. how did the government continue? delegator,as a great except in public affairs. they were used to running things on their own. i think it is somewhat of

dr. grayson's letters are part of the collection at the woodrow wilson library at stanford about two hours from washington. togetherg this program , we will learn more about wilson threw grayson's letters. >> we have a letter in this box whohenry morgan sthau wanted to write about experiences. so he was asking grayson if he could use certain information. the information you gave me about president wilson and you're having come to the conclusion that he should resign and how he was influenced by mrs. wilson to give up this plan. so mrs. wilson was very concerned that her husband would not get better if he did not have something to engage his mind, that he would just deteriorate if he was forced out of the presidency. was ill,sident wilson it has been speculated wildly among historians -- speculated widely among historians. we have one document here that sheds a little bit of light on that. it is a telegram from henry morgenthau who was the ambassador to turkey and he is writing to dr. carey grayson asking if the president has any objection to a citizens meeting to protest against turks bein

dr. grayson's letters are part of the collection at the woodrow wilson library at stanford about two hours from washington. in putting this program together, we will learn more about wilson threw grayson's letters. >> we have a letter in this box from henry morganthau who wanted to write about experiences. so he was asking grayson if he could use certain information. the information you gave me about president wilson and you're having come to the conclusion that he should resign and how he was influenced by mrs. wilson to give up this plan. so mrs. wilson was very concerned that her husband would not get better if he did not have something to engage his mind, that he would just deteriorate if he was forced out of the presidency. while president wilson was ill, it has been speculated wildly among historians -- speculated widely among historians. we have one document here that sheds a little bit of light on that. it is a telegram from henry morgenthau who was the ambassador to turkey and he is writing to dr. carey grayson asking if the president has any objection to a citizens meeting to pro