Good morning.
Today’s forecast calls for a mostly sunny day, with a high of sixty-eight.
Whitewater’s Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM.
On this day in 1919, Pres. Wilson suffered a stroke that significantly reduced his ability to govern (although he remained in office until 1921):
On October 2, 1919, at the White House in Washington, D.C., United StatesPresident Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke that leaves him partially paralyzed on his left side and effectively ends his presidential career….On September 25, he collapsed after delivering a speech in Pueblo,Colorado, and subsequently returned to Washington, where a massive cerebral hemorrhage on October 2 nearly killed him.
Even while incapacitated, however, Wilson continued to influence proceedings regarding the Versailles Treaty. After a long and bitter struggle, the Senate voted on Lodge’s motion to ratify the treaty—but only with a number of amendments attached—on March 19, 1920. Thanks to the senators loyal to Wilson—who remained steadfastly unwilling to accept ratification of any compromised version of the treaty—and those who opposed the treaty in any form, the ratification resolution failed to obtain the necessary two-thirds majority, and the Senate consequently refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles.
Google’s daily puzzle asks about kings and creatures: “The Spanish king who faced the Jersey Devil abdicated and fled to America following which battle?”