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THREAD: #Lafayette Square #TheWhiteHouse #PennslyvaniaAvenue #WashingtonDC – honors #AmericanRevolution heroes #Lafayette, #Rochambeau, #VonSteuben & #Kosciuszko. Adulterer #Congressman Daniel Sickles #murdered adulterer Philip Barton Key (Francis Scott Key’s son) in 1859...
over Sickles’ adulteress wife Teresa, who he had married when she was 15/16. [Key died in the white home in the background. It's known as President McKinley's Little White House.]
Sickles was the first to be acquitted using the “temporary insanity” defense and stayed on as a Congressman. He later became a #USCivilWar #MedalOfHonor war hero at #Gettysburg.
In the center of the square is actually a statue of #AndrewJackson, hero of #1812 and later #USPresident and architect of the genocidal #TrailOfTears to drive the #Cherokees and others out of Eastern United States. #BLM #BlackLivesMatter 
It’s also the site of the #WhiteHousePeaceVigil, the longest anti-nuclear weapon protest in the US (in the world?). Wiki says it’s also been “a racetrack, a graveyard, a zoo, a slave market, an encampment for soldiers during the War of 1812...political protests and celebrations.”
![Key died in the white home in the background. It's known as President McKinley's Little White House. [Correction, I showed the wrong photo at the beginning of this thread. This is the correct Little White House.]Who says #history is boring? #tourism #USA](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbUfF96XsAAJdLz.jpg "Key died in the white home in the background. It's known as President McKinley's Little White House. [Correction, I showed the wrong photo at the beginning of this thread. This is the correct Little White House.]Who says #history is boring? #tourism #USA")
