Wilsonian

Adjective

Meaning

of or relating to or suggestive of Woodrow Wilson

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Despite Roosevelt's Wilsonian background, he and Secretary of State Cordell Hull acted with great care not to provoke isolationist sentiment. Source: Internet

Hearst fought hard against Wilsonian internationalism, the League of Nations, and the World Court, thereby appealing to an isolationist audience. Source: Internet

President Richard Nixon cynically used the rhetoric of Wilsonian idealism to escalate the war in Vietnam, saying that his plan would bring the United States closer to Wilson’s “goal of a just and lasting peace.” Source: Internet

George Noble, Policies and opinions at Paris, 1919: Wilsonian diplomacy, the Versailles Peace, and French public opinion (1968). Source: Internet

Wilsonian idealism became a reason for American intervention in Latin America until 1933, when Franklin Roosevelt ended moralistic approaches to the region. Source: Internet

The Wilsonian vision survived the break-up of the Soviet bloc, and both the George W. Bush and later Clinton administrations largely continued to successfully pursue a new, somewhat modified version of "perpetuating the liberal order". Source: Internet

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