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[b]1920 At a Glance[/b][/center]

[b]Prohibition Takes Effect Tomorrow
After 12:01 AM Saturday, Not One Barrel of Intoxicating Liquor, Case of Wine, or Keg of Beer Can be Made.[/b]

[i]Boston Herald[/i] Headline—January 15th, 1920

Mrs. Wilson,

What is most important now is that the President rest and stay away from the public eye as much as possible. This includes even members of Congress and the Senate, we cannot and must not let anyone in Washington know the true extent of his malady. It falls to you to do the business of the executive, to keep up appearances and to make sure nobody questions where the President is, or how bad off he actually is. I will return to Washington within the next few weeks and shall be able to help you safeguard the truth.

Yours,

Dr. Cary T. Grayson

-- Personal Letter

[b]With President Wilson Secluded, Senate Debates Versailles Treaty for Final Time[/b]

[i]Washington Post[/i] Headline – March 2nd, 1920 

“The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her powerful good, and endanger her very existence. Leave her to march freely through the centuries to come, as in the years that have gone. Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance; this great land of ordered liberty. For if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.”

Senator Henry Cabot Lodge on the Senate Floor – March 15th, 1920

[b]Senate Defeats Treaty, League of Nations Membership Vote 49 to 35; Orders it Returned to the President[/b]

--[i]New York Times[/i] Headline
March 19th, 1920

"The Secretary of the Senate is hereby instructed to return to the President the Treaty of Peace with Germany signed at Versailles on the twenty-eighth day of June, 1919, and respectfully inform the President that the Senate has failed to ratify said treaty, being unable to obtain the constitutional majority required therefor."

[b]--Official Senate Resolution[/b]