Tumulty

Most significantly, he convinced the legislature to expand Medicaid under provisions of the Affordable Care Act, health coverage to 600,000 low-income North Carolinians," Tumulty continued.

Heckscher, p. 276. Wilson's personal staff reflected his preferences; Tumulty's position provided a political buffer and intermediary with the press, and his irrepressible Irish spirits offset the president's often dour Scotch disposition.

Letter from J. M. Tumulty, secretary to President Wilson, to the Boston branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, quoted in Link, Wilson.

Wilson appointed Joseph Patrick Tumulty as his private secretary, a position he held throughout Wilson's political career.