Dolley Madison was known as being a great entertainer, I personally consider her to be a great diplomat, she really was the woman who started to define what the first lady’s responsibility would be.

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She understood that her job as First Lady, or as an early diplomat, was to bring people together as people so they could have conversations and really come together and synthesize ideas, so I think of it as Dolley really created a great definition of early American civil discourse.