"To see the British Prime Minister watching the company, with six or seven senses not available to ordinary men, judging character, motive, and subconscious impulse, perceiving what each was thinking and even what each was going to say next, and compounding with telepathic instinct the argument or appeal best suited to the vanity, weakness, or self-interest of his immediate auditor, was to realize that the poor President would be playing blind man's buff in that party."
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Presidents of the United StatesAcademics from the United StatesNobel Peace Prize laureatesGovernors of New JerseyPoliticians from Virginia
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John Maynard Keynes, on David Lloyd George and Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference, in The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Ch. III, p. 41
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Woodrow Wilson
1856 – 1924
Präsident der USA (1913-1921)
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