Wilson Lied About His Imperial Intentions
Check out the Times Machine, where you can read old copies of the NYT that have been saved to image format. Here’s page 3 for Tuesday, Nov 7, 1916. Check out the 3-column, full-length political ad for President Wilson’s re-election, paid for by the DNC. At the bottom, it reads:
If you want War and Panics, Vote for Hughes with Roosevelt.
IF YOU WANT PEACE WITH HONOR AND CONTINUED PROSPERITY
VOTE FOR WILSON!
It’s Up To You and Your Conscience
Wilson pitched for war within five months of winning re-election. Hmm. Have any other Presidential candidates every lied about being anti-war, or being in favor of a “humbler foreign policy,” prior to engaging in Imperial Overreach and nation-building? Are there any candidates today, perhaps in the Democrat party, who are running as “anti-war?” Do you believe them?
February 26th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
This is amazing. They announce the “Times Machine,” it gets Dugg, knocked out of service, and two days later it doesn’t work at all.
WTF?
Hell, they probably got more hits the first day after they announced the service then the NYT got online all of 2008 so far …
February 26th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Oh yeah, looks like they’ve neutered it. Sending us to the archives and giving us PDFs of individual articles, instead of the whole page on an image.
It’ll be interesting to see if they go back to the whole page view or not. Seeing the ads (esp. the political ads) and being able to see the entirety of their writing for particular days of interest was valuable.
If they don’t go back, I’ll assume ads and date context were the reasons why …
May 24th, 2008 at 11:15 am
They’re back, but only for home delivery customers. It looks as if they’ll do it in full context, but I can’t be sure. I don’t think it’s worth getting the NYT to find out.