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Oil on canvas. The White House Collection, Washington, DC.
This is the official White House portrait of Madison commissioned by President James Monroe.
Oil on canvas. The White House Collection, Washington, DC.
This is the official White House portrait of Madison commissioned by President James Monroe.
But the peculiar character of [Aaron] Burr’s correspondence goes beyond his preoccupation with haste and secrecy. Burr never developed any ideas about constitutionalism or governmental policy in the way the other Revolutionary statesmen did, because, in truth, he was not much concerned about such matters. If he had any idea about the new federal Constitution of 1787, he left no record of it.