But like a fool I kept it in, just because it was really, really interesting, and had really, really happened.

BBC: You COULD make it up

"I am not as big a fool as I look, and if you will just go on the assumption that I am not a fool, it would correct a good many news items, " he remarked at one press conference in 1914.

BBC: Woodrow Wilson's odd early press conferences

"The industry said I was a fool--looking at wood and thinking I could machine it like metal, " he says.

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