they placed him with a private tutor by the name of donald robertson, and madison studiy i with donald robertson for five years. later in life madison was to write everything i became i owed to that man. he really was the rigorous training and inspiration by an amazing teacher that prepared madison to take on such a strong role in building the american nation. we're going to go over to the dining room now. take a look at how james and dolley entertained their guests. we're now entering the madison's dining room. this is in the part of the house that madison added with his marriage to dolley, so this is his first expansion of the home. and madison and dolley entertained constantly, and they brought to montpelier the style of entertaining that they had first developed during madison's presidency at the white house. in fact, we created a table with ghost of the famous visitors who came calling from andrew jackson here to the marquis d de lafayette, to jefferson, james monroe. and what really starts bringing this room together is the wallpaper. we know from our research that james and doll

prior to that, that prepared him and placed him with a private tutor by the name of donald robertson. he studied with him for five years. he was a scottsman who is from edinburgh. later in life, madison was to write everything i became i owed to that man. it was an inspiration by an amazing teacher that prepared him to take on a strong role in building the american nation. we are going to go to the dining room and take a look at how james and dolly entertain their guests. we are now entering the madison's dining room. this is in a part of the house that madison had in his marriage to dolly. this was his first expansion of the home. during the presidency at the white house. we created a table with ghost of the famous visitors who came calling. they were introducing french-inspired papers. they ordered wallpaper from him and this was a replica of what he produced at that time. a feeling of attempt in this room. that makes the corners dissolve away. an intimate and spacious feel from the guest. the thing they noticed is madison was not seated at the head of the table. he was on the side

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