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Today is the 4th of July 2019.

Let's talk about what Thomas Jefferson got wrong and the best way to serve the nation

we love.

It is a nondescript room in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Standing behind a plexiglass wall, I could see a table with chairs, a fireplace, and a brown

wooden armoire. Thomas Jefferson

stayed at this site for about a hundred days in 1776. It was here that he wrote three

drafts of the Virginia Constitution, produced committee reports, authored a position paper, and

maintained personal correspondence. It was here that he completed the Declaration

of Independence. The house where he stayed for those fateful days was torn down in 1883,

but reconstructed by the National Park Service for America's bicentennial in 1976. As a result,

I was looking at a replica of Jefferson's actual workspace.

It was deeply moving to stand at the site where a document that changed history was authored.

Thomas Jefferson was one of the most brilliant men America has ever known.

I've read four biographies of him and remain deeply impressed with his

genius. When I visited Monticello, the home in Virginia he designed, I was struck by the technological

sophistication of his architectural brilliance. Jefferson served our country as the author of our

Declaration of Independence and Virginia's Statute for Religious Freedom.

He was Secretary of State under President Washington, Vice President under John Adams,

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