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What is the biggest misconception Americans have about Thomas Jefferson? Annette Gordon-Reed, one of the country's leading Jefferson scholars, sat down with Judy Woodruff to share some things Americans might not know about the nation's third president — and where she'd send him first if he were visiting the... show more

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