Jefferson Memorial

President John F. Kennedy, at a 1962 dinner honoring 29 Nobel Prize winners, told his guests that they were "the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence and served as George Washington's secretary of...

The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C., dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826), one of the most important of the American "Founding Fathers" as the main drafter and writer of the "Declaration of Independence", member of the Continental Congress, served as Governor of the newly independent Commonwealth of Virginia, American minister to King Louis XVI and...