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It’s reported that Martha Washington said hosting Thomas Jefferson at Mount Vernon was the second-most horrible day of her life, after burying her husband. Do we know what he did during that visit to garner that kind of response?

by /u/IamNotPersephone in /r/AskHistorians

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