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When did President Woodrow Wilson suffer the stroke that Edith Wilson concealed for seventeen months?
Wilson collapsed in Pueblo, Colorado on 25 September 1919 mid-speech, then suffered a major ischaemic stroke at the White House on 2 October 1919. The Twenty-fifth Amendment was the eventual institutional response.
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The First Lady Who Ran the United States for Eighteen Months After Her Husband's Stroke and Told No One President Woodrow Wilson suffered a major stroke on 2 October 1919. His wife Edith concealed the severity for the remaining seventeen months of his term, controlling all access to him and deciding which papers reached his desk. Vice President Marshall was never informed. Historians have called it the longest period of executive concealment in American history.
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