The Madman in the White House

Was there a madman in the White House?

In 1919, US diplomat William Bullitt thought there might be.

Alarmed by President Woodrow Wilson's handling of the Treaty of Versailles, Bullitt and his friend Sigmund Freud set out to write a psychological analysis of the president. In this Intellectual Forum talk, historian Patrick Weil uses this manuscript as a basis for a major reassessment of Wilson, of 20th-century American diplomacy, and of how the mental health of a controversial American president shaped world events.