Mrs. Galt and her Woody

For presidential history geeks like me, there's this great series of lectures from the Teaching Company called "Great Presidents" in which Professor Allan J. Lichtman profiles 12 presidents: Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Polk, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, FDR, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson and Reagan. (Here is the link to the series if anyone is interested.)

In the lectures about President Woodrow Wilson, the author tells this story. It seems that shortly after Wilson's first wife died, he began dating socialite Edith Galt. The Washington press thought that this was pretty insensitive of him to see another woman so soon after his first wife's death, but that didn't deter Woody.

While he was courting her, according to Professor Lichtman, the Washington Post committed one of the most famous presidential typos in history. The paper wrote a story in which the writer intended to say "the president spent much of the evening entertaining Mrs. Galt." Instead, the typo read "the president spent much of the evening entering Mrs. Galt." When they realized their mistake, the Post tried to recall the newspapers, but it was too late to recapture all of them.



This tale is also told in the Wikipedia biography of Edith Wilson. Wikipedia also says of Woody and wife #2:
"They had been a romantic item for such a long period of time, however, that Washington wags were quick to poke fun at the marriage. As one joke went, when Edith Galt heard the President propose marriage, she nearly fell out of bed."