. >> yes, yes, and don't think sigmund freud didn't make a lot of that when he wrote about wilson andeeded a mother? >> absolutely. >> wilson was reelected as the man who kept us out of war, but within weeks of his second inauguration, he declared the world must be made safe for democracy. so it's an about-face. >> it is an about-face and it's the underpinnings of our foreign policy today. >> american sent two million doughboys to europe and wilson was welcomed as the savior of the world. >> it's bigger than anything napoleon or caesar saw. does all this adulation somehow affect him? i think he still remained the preacher's son with a christ complex. >> wilson would spend six months in paris, his mission, to establish a league of nations to prevent all future wars. >> if we had some kind of international parliament where every nation could sit, this could ostensibly stop all war. >> the league is the vital and compelling part of the treaty. >> the u.s. senate balked, so in 1919, wilson took his case to the people, a grueling 29-city tour. but outside pueblo, colorado, he collapsed. da