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Peabody Room Historical Lecture Series: James Madison: Burning Down the (White) House
Jamie Stiehm, a Creators Syndicate columnist and contributor to USNEWS.com, discusses how James Madison, author of the Constitution, was a brilliant political thinker, but a bumbling president who let the British burn down the President's House and the US Capitol in 1814.