CONVERSATIONS ON JEFFERSON AND JEFFERSONIAN POLITICS
The Jefferson Memorial
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    "Are we all really equal?"

    Re: Jefferson's writings in the Jefferson Memorial. I understand Pres.Roosevelt had some words physically removed to read like he wanted. Has anyone ever heard or read of this?

    Thanks.

    July 7, 2001
Eyler Coates
    The inscriptions on the Jefferson Memorial are an edited selection taken from a large number of Jefferson's writings. There is a website for the Jefferson Memorial, and it may describe how the quotations were selected. It is located at: http://www.nps.gov/thje/home.htm

    July 17, 2001
Richard Dixon
    In the book, American Scripture, Pauline Maier, Knopf 1997, p.209, you can find the details on the composition of the inscriptions.

    August 22, 2001

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