Before Donald Trump, the last president to put tariffs at the top of his post-inauguration to-do list was Woodrow Wilson ... average tariff rate to nearly 60%, Smoot-Hawley ignited a worldwide ...

A Southerner and a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson rode the Progressive Movement into the White House in 1912. For his second term campaign in 1916, he promised to keep the USA neutral and not to enter WWI.