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Madam President

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43min | Aired on Mar 27, 1998 | TV-PG | CC |

In one of the best-kept secrets in White House history, First Lady Edith Wilson essentially ran the country for over a year after her husband, President Woodrow Wilson, suffered a stroke in the fall of 1919.

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