Edith Wilson's Nonsense

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The roaring twenties, the jazz age, the age of intolerance, and the age of wonderful nonsense are all names to describe the year that made the decade roar: the 1920s. This generation produced some of the most captivating aspects of life that we still use or modified, today. Such as the League of Nations. Although we don’t still use this treaty, we do still use NATO, which is very similar. The president at that time was Woodrow Wilson. Half way through his term, he was affected by a blood clot that caused some brain damage. Because of this the first lady, Edith Wilson, took on his role. She made decisions for him, signed papers by tying her hand to his and moving it so he could write, even the French ambassador said that the real power rested