For a limited time, the George W. Bush Presidential Museum is offering visitors access to a special temporary exhibit featuring rare historic documents connected to the people and moments that shaped the nation.<\/p>\n
According to the Bush Center, \u2018Up Close With History: Founding Fathers Edition\u2019 offers visitors a unique opportunity to come face-to-face with history through the words, signatures, and firsthand records of the Founding Fathers.<\/p>\n
Visitors will find the following artifacts in the exhibit:<\/p>\n
A handwritten letter from George Washington to Col. John Cadwalader, written during the Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n
A personal letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Marquis de Lafayette.<\/p>\n
A handwritten letter from Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Hodgdon, written during the Whiskey Rebellion.<\/p>\n
A letter from James Madison to the agents of the United States for the relief and protection of American seamen.<\/p>\n
A portrait of George Washington by Robert Edge Pine, painted in 1785.<\/p>\n
An early 19th century portrait of Dolley Madison by William Dunlap.<\/p>\n
The listed artifacts are courtesy of Harlan Crow Library.<\/p>\n
The exhibit is included with museum admission and will run for five days only, Sept 23-27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For a limited time, the George W. Bush Presidential Museum is offering visitors access to a special temporary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-441249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}