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Painting showing Washington and Lafayette on horseback in a winter setting at Valley Forge 2002 60.6% 79,841 34.5% 45,407 On December 4 1786 Washington was chosen to lead the Virginia delegation but he declined on December 21 He had concerns about the legality of the convention and consulted James Madison Henry Knox and others They persuaded him to attend it however as his presence might induce reluctant states to send delegates and smooth the way for the ratification process. On March 28 Washington told Governor Edmund Randolph that he would attend the convention but made it clear that he was urged to attend. 16.1 National and comparative studies, 11 Historical reputation and legacy, A new and permanent C/D concourse (also called "Tier 2") is planned as part of the D2 Dulles Development Project the new building is to include a three-level structure with 44 airline gates and similar amenities to Concourse B the concourse plan includes a dedicated mezzanine corridor with moving sidewalks to serve international passengers the design and construction of the new C/D concourse has not been scheduled. When built it is planned that both terminals will be connected to the main terminal and other concourses via the AeroTrain to that extent the AeroTrain station at Concourse C was built at the location where the future Concourse C/D structure is proposed to be built and is connected to the existing Concourse C via an underground walkway. 11.6 Commemorations With the exception of cases of peonage beyond the period of Reconstruction the federal government took almost no action to enforce the 13th Amendment until December 1941 when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt summoned his attorney general Five days after Pearl Harbor at the request of the president Attorney General Francis Biddle issued Circular No 3591 to all federal prosecutors instructing them to actively investigate and try any case of involuntary servitude or slavery Several months later convict leasing was officially abolished But aspects have persisted in other forms while historians argue that other systems of penal labor were all created in 1865 and convict leasing was simply the most oppressive form, Most Washington citizens embraced the arriving troops although there were pockets of apathy and Southern sympathy Upon hearing a Union regiment singing "John Brown's Body" as the soldiers marched beneath her window resident Julia Ward Howe wrote the patriotic "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to the same tune, See also: List of National Historic Landmarks in Washington D.C.; National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington D.C.; and List of museums in Washington D.C.

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