The name of Coolidge provoked another outburst. When I informed him that I had just left his successor at the White House, he asked me what I thought of him. I replied that I was not quite sure. He replied: “I will tell you what he is like. Oscar Wilde once saw a man who was giving himself great airs at a social function. He went up to him and putting on his eyeglass”—here Wilson took his glasses in his right hand and fixed them at his eye—“he said to him: ‘Are you supposed to be anyone in particular?’ Coolidge is no one in particular.” Here was the old Wilson with his personal hatreds unquenched right to the end of his journey.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The name of Coolidge provoked another outburst. When I informed him that I had just left his successor at the White House, he asked me what I thought of him. I replied that I was not quite sure. He replied: “I will tell you what he is like. Oscar Wilde once saw a man who was giving himself great airs at a social function. He went up to him and putting on his eyeglass”—here Wilson took his glasses in his right hand and fixed them at his eye—“he said to him: ‘Are you supposed to be anyone in particular?’ Coolidge is no one in particular.” Here was the old Wilson with his personal hatreds unquenched right to the end of his journey." in the context of "David Lloyd George recounting Woodrow Wilson's opinion of Coolidge in 1923, The Truth about the Peace Treaties: Volume I (1938), p. 241" to mean that wisdom is timeless.