Disabilities Quotes
Ahmed Khomeini, son of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is the Mrs. Wilson of modern Iran.
During the last year of Woodrow Wilson's presidency, unknown to the public, First Lady, Edith Bolling Wilson, virtually ran the administration because of her husband's illness and debilitation. In the latter months of the Ayatollah’s life, he was non functional and his son was running the government without telling the public.
Washington quickly changed his mind when he realized that there were many Negroes fighting for his army and acquitting themselves very well. The pressure for troops and the English invitation to Negroes to help them and get their freedom, caused Washington to flip-flop on this point to the distress of most of his fellow Southerners. See {614220}.
In effect this was one of the first organized systems of Social Security and disability insurance—one of the first social safety nets.
Wilson was disabled and there was no provision for Presidential Disability then. Some suggested that he should be pressured to resign.
As hard as it is to understand today, there were few states with safety laws governing industry. There was no OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration ) or other federal regulation of industrial safety conditions.
See Belva Lockwood {609865} for the view of the woman who lobbied heavily for the law and became the first woman to practice before the Supreme Court.
The justice so hated the President, that he not only made intemperate insulting remarks in private as this one but he even made intemperate insults in Supreme Court proceedings. See {585241}. McReynolds was an extreme racist and detested every thing that FDR and the New Deal stood for. Although an elderly man when FDR came into office, he lived long enough so that Roosevelt was never able to appoint his replacement. McReynolds was one of the reasons that FDR tried to pack the Supreme Court.
