Colonel Edward House: The Man Behind Woodrow Wilson's Throne | 

In April 1914, Woodrow Wilson calls on his most trusted advisor, Colonel Edward House after luncheon. He is seeking counsel on what he should do about the "Mexican Situation." President Huerta has refused to give the American Flag a 21-gun salute after the Tampico Incident, and Wilson feels the U.S. cannot bear this insult. Should he authorize invasion? 

A savvy Politico from Texas, Colonel Edward House (who isn't really a Colonel but granted this honorific title by Governor Jim Hogg) has big foreign policy ideas for Wilson and his administration, and one of those ideas is restoring law and order in Mexico via U.S. intervention. 

Wilson sends battleships to the East Coast and the West Coast of Mexico and talk of WAR is all over the papers. Is the United States on the edge of an armed conflict? Will the U.S. get the regime change they're looking for, or will Wilson's cooler head and pacific nature prevail?

Music from Epidemic Sound.

Sources for this episode include:

• Colonel House by Charles E. Neu
• War on the Border by Jeff Guinn
• William F. Buckley Sr by John A. Adams Jr.
• Buckley by Sam Tanenhaus