Chapter 16
After I recovered enough, Cynthia and I resumed our suffragist tendencies in New York, away from the picketing and arrests in Washington. We resumed our letter writing and telephone campaigns, bombarding senators and newspaper offices with our message. When the 65th Congress reconvened for a final session in December 1918, Wilson included the woman suffrage amendment in his address to Congress for the first time. Then, satisfied he had done his part for democracy in America, he set sail for Paris and the Palace of Mirrors, an elaborate old-time castle reflecting images of bygone days when people aspired to gild themselves. Wilson wanted to assert himself as the chosen one, meant to free the world’s oppressed. Again, a vote on the woman suffrage amendment in the Senate wasn’t co
