This is getting to be pathological. Glenn Beck's all-consuming hatred of Woodrow Wilson seems to have rendered him physically incapable of honest discussion about the man.

On page 54 of Broke, Beck writes about Wilson's role in the progressive “social engineering” scheme:

Wilson's desire to control got so creepy that at one point he decided to create a “new standard for manhood” for American soldiers. The result was a “Commission on Training Camp Activities” that regulated everything from approved soldier recreation to sexual practices, promising “protection and stimulation of its mental, moral and physical manhood.”

First of all, he's seriously begrudging the man for wanting the government to regulate the conduct of soldiers? Really?

Secondly, the Commission on Training Camp Activities didn't regulate “everything from approved soldier recreation to sexual practices.” It proffered solutions to combating the drunkenness and prostitution that were prevalent on and around military bases:

The task of this Commission, therefore, is to re-establish, as far as possible, the old social ties -- to furnish these young men a substitute for the recreational and relaxational opportunities to which they have been accustomed -- in brief, to rationalize, as far as it can be done, the bewildering environment of a war camp. It is also for the Commission to prevent and suppress certain vicious conditions traditionally associated with armies and training camps.

Essentially, their mission was to get soldiers to spend their free time in theaters and the gym instead of in saloons and VD clinics. And Wilson had a very good reason to want his soldiers happy and fit instead of drunk and syphilitic -- the country was at war.

But to Beck, Wilson was a “creepy” control freak who wanted to “regulate sexual practices.”