Ida Minerva Tarbell (1857 – 1944) was a deeply respected American journalist; in 1916 she interviewed President Woodrow Wilson shortly before he was reëlected for his second term:
“I have in a rather long journalistic career talked with many men of high position, both in this country and in Europe, with every president since and including Mr. Cleveland, with scores of our captains of industry, with great statesmen and scientists and writers, but never have I talked with any man who showed himself more direct, less engaged with himself and more direct with the affairs committed to him, more just and more gentle in his estimate of people, less bitter, emotional, prejudiced and yet never for an instant fooled. Mr. Wilson is a fine, humorous, cultivated American gentlemen.”
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