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Featured Images:
- "Mrs. James Madison" by Bass Otis [c. 1817], courtesy of Wikipedia
- " Daguerreotype of Dolley Madison" by Matthew Brady [c. 1848], courtesy of Wikipedia
- "Paul Jennings" [c. mid-late 1800s], courtesy of Wikipedia
- "A gathering on the South Portico of the White House of President Polk, Dolley Madison, and James Buchanan" by George Eastman House [c. 1848], courtesy of Wikipedia
Intro and Outro Music: Selections from “Jefferson and Liberty” as performed by The Itinerant Band
