which is really interesting because when madison died, they're had been a promise that he would be free. dolley didn't free him and it took him awhile from 1847 for him to actually make enough money to buy his freedom. then he talked leader how dolly madison went into very hard times because all the friends and family abandoned her and he actually had to bring her food, give her money and help take care and the one had turned. one of the things he doesn't talk about is his role in 1848 thus leaves escapes the plot in washington, d.c.. one of the largest during the whole period of slavery. and what the deal was is that this is in april that on a saturday night while there were parties and good times going on in the city and this was a particular week because they were celebrating the revolution taking place in europe, the edification of the french lardy, other revolutions and other countries. now the contradiction here that they are suffering the revolution of freedom and they've got all these slaves but they are having party celebrating and it is a saturday night and the plan was that individua

what if we don't have the beautiful town homes that are there and completely restored including dolley madison's home where she lived after her husband's presidency. imagine if we had high-rise concrete federal office buildings? this is the plan put into motion in the 1950's because the federal government continue to proliferate. president eisenhower and kennedy signed off on a plan to raise and demolish all of the townhomes in lafayette square to use the prime real estate to put up high-rise office blocks for the federal bureaucracy. mrs. kennedy got wind of this and winter her husband to say please do not do this. here she is with the architect. look at the towne house. they can be restored. she called on the west coast architect whose particular interest was how to preserve history while adding modern architecture said he suggested putting into low-rise office buildings of red brick. not concrete let print beautiful the federal ara brick that goes with the brick sidewalks in pavement throughout lafayette square. the next time you're down there think of mrs. kennedy. and then kicked off a move