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Although Baruch played a crucial role in funding Wilson's
campaign, in 1916, he had not ignored Wilson's almost
successful opponent, Charles Evans Hughes. Carter
Field points out, in his biography of Baruch:
"My personal view is that Baruch would have been tremendously important in
the Hughes election, if Hughes had been elected in the close election of
1916, both in the conduct of the war and in the making of the peace." Field
continues, "Under this curious cloak of anonymity, Baruch exercised a very
unusual type of political power in those early Wilson days. He was cultivated
by most of the Wilson lights, who speedily found out that he could do more
for them than they could do by directly appealing to Wilson. Naturally, there
was no publicity for all this."
Field also says, "For one thing, Wilson not only loved
Baruch, he ADMIRED him. Mrs. Wilson makes this
specific statement in her Memoirs."
Wilson's relations with others were not always marked by
such deep affection. David Lawrence, in his biography of
Wilson, "The True Story of Woodrow Wilson", notes that
in June, 1907, former President Grover Cleveland, a
trustee of Princeton, publicly denounced Wilson's plans
to alter the character of the school, making a "bitter
attack". Cleveland had come to live in Princeton after he
left the White House, and was deeply attached to the
university. He died in the summer of 1908. That fall,
when Wilson, as president of the school, made his
annual opening speech, he made no mention of
Cleveland's death, nor did he ever schedule a memorial
exercise, as was the custom when a trustee passed
away.