Well, I apologize for the out-and-out wrong statements
regarding history in the opening post.

The armistice following the Great War was uncommonly tense
for practicing politics and negotiating compromises.
US President Woodrow Wilson was bitterly opposed to COMPROMISE.
The whole civilized world knows, contrary to what I stated,
that Woodrow Wilson was wholeheartedly in favor
of the League of Nations. He just didn't want to negotiate about it.

Former Ambassador Henry White, who at the end of his long life
lived in this stately home as the husband of a born Vanderbilt,
found himself going back and forth in the peace process between
President Wilson and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge.
White certainly wanted something to be worked out and agreed to,
and White very much wanted the United States to be in on it.

Cabot Lodge had the US Legislative branch to work with, and
Wilson's way of overriding the US Congress with his own executive prerogative pitted Wilson and Lodge against each other in the peace process.

I have made a fast and sloppy review of writings about the armistice, the Treaty of Versailles, and the League of Nations,
that is, from the point of view of Senator Lodge, Wilson, and White.

I still cannot locate, anywhere in this considerable literature,
a definite confirmation that former Ambassador Henry White brought anybody back to the Vanderbilt 'cottage' in Lenox, Massachusetts,
where they weighed the obstacles to world peace.
If the meeting was with President Woodrow Wilson, I would be shocked,
because that was not Wilson's style.
More likely, Henry White's guest would have been someone like
Senator Lodge, with whom White often exchanged letters;
letters between them are regularly quoted in books about Lodge's career.
Henry Cabot Lodge has more than one biographer or writer about him;
I can't locate any writer who wrote a book dedicated to Henry White,
who was too much behind the scenes and not the most public of figures.

Goodness, there's a lot there.
More and more, Woodrow Wilson stands out as an anomaly,
a crusader and a bit of a martyr, surrounded by politicians,
and with his Fourteen Points at the Paris Peace Conference,
Wilson spread his wings and soared high over the opposition.
"Exalted" is a word often used to describe his oratory.
He did not long survive the failure of the attempts to
bring the United States to joing the League of Nations.
Okay, better leave that subject.