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Joel Gehrke, FOX News: Politics
Mon, 08/21/2017 - 3:49am

An exhibit alongside the nation's chief memorial to Thomas Jefferson will receive an update that reflects "the complexity" of his status as a founder of the United States and a slaveholder, according to stewards of the National Mall.

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