>> edith wilson is such a fascinating character. president wilson's first wife ellen died during his first term. he married edith wilson, who was a socialite, and she was anti-suffrage. occasionally, a theory will be floated that maybe, he came around because of her influence. there is no evidence for that. any public statements she made were anti-suffrage. his daughters were more sympathetic, but edith was not. by the end of his second term, wilson had had a stroke. edith wilson was running his administration much more than i think we will ever know, and i don't think there is some cache of papers that will show us how powerful edith wilson was. i think that will always remain a secret, but she was the power behind the throne for definitely the last year of his administration, and there is no reason to think she is the one who finally said, actually, women should vote. that would be a great story. he really came around to the lukewarm degree that he came around at all for total political expediency reasons. he realized it was going