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Portraits of influence
#3:
Woodrow Wilson 1879
After serving as Princeton’s 13th president, America’s
28th president achieved a host of domestic reforms, including the creation
of the Federal Reserve System, the income tax, and the Federal Trade Commission,
which ushered in a new era of government regulation. He led the United
States through World War I; his Fourteen Points remain an outstanding
liberal expression of international relations, though he failed to gain
U.S. entry into the League of Nations. 
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By
Michael Witte ’66
Who’s who in the illustration: Numbers in parentheses
represent the rankings on the PAW panel’s list.
