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Jefferson Memorial Thesis
The Jefferson Memorial honors Thomas Jefferson’s ideals of beauty, science, learning, culture, and liberty. Thomas Jefferson was America’s 3rd president and became one of the few to sign the Declaration of Independence. The memorial was built in dedication to him as a president, politician, drafter of the Declaration of Independence, architect, educator, and intellectual. The idea came from Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was upset that there was no monument to honor the great president, like there was for George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. And like everybody else, he felt that Jefferson had a great impact on the nation.
The monument was made in 1943 and took about 4 years to build. However, the actual statue of Jefferson was not finished
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