In 1982, CBS obtained broadcast television rights to the NCAA tournament. That same year, ESPN began showing the opening rounds of the tournament, which established ESPN's following among college basketball fans and was the network's first contract signed with the NCAA for a major sport.
Woodrow Wilson, a leader of the Progressive Movement, was the 28th President of the United States (1913-1921). After a policy of neutrality at the outbreak of World War I, Wilson led America into war in order to make the world safe for democracy.. Like Roosevelt before him, Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. No one but the President, he said, seems to be expected ... to look out for the general interests of the country..
Because of the First World War and its aftermath, Woodrow Wilson fashioned an ambitious international agenda. Credit: Image courtesy of American Memory at the Library of Congress. The influence of President Woodrow Wilson on American foreign policy has been profound and lasting. Just before his inauguration, however, Wilson remarked, [i]t would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs..