WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — On this day 85 years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt set the cornerstone for the Jefferson Memorial in a ceremony. On Nov. 15, 1939, President Roosevelt laid ...

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and then moving on to what made Jefferson more than the “founding father” of Monticello. As his gravestone tells us, he wrote the Declaration of Independence, authored the Statute of Virginia ...