Wilson.

Woodrow Wilson (Alexander Knox) is best known as the head of Princeton University and the author of several books on the democratic process. As the U.S. is going through a progressive change in national politics and a split is developing in the opposing Republican Party. As World War I is breaking out in Europe in 1914, his wife Ellen dies of bright's disease. Overcome with grief and loneliness, the President, carries on. He meets Edith Bolling Galt, a Washington D.C. widow, and they find themselves in love.