The Thomas Jefferson Memorial, modeled after the Pantheon in Rome, is America's memorial to our third President, as well as being the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
The statue of Jefferson looks out from the interior of the Memorial toward the White House.
The bronze statue is nineteen feet tall and weighs five tons.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the President of the United States in 1943 when the Jefferson Memorial was completed, and although the two differed in their political views, and were separated by almost 100 years, Roosevelt ordered that there would be no trees on Constitution Avenue blocking the view from the oval office in the White House to the Jefferson Memorial and Jefferson's eyes.
Don't believe that? When you climb the stairs to the top, stand with Jefferson at your back, and look towards the White House. Told you!