When James Madison was 43 and a Congressman, he met Dolley (Dorothy Payne), she was a 26 widow with two young sons, one a new born and one 18 months old. She was beautiful and vivacious and very popular. He was old and dreary of temperament. It didn’t seem like much of a match made in heaven.

But it was. She gave him just what he needed to excel. He gave her stability and love. They were a great couple.

It was sort of like the episode of Peanuts by Schultz. Lucy was hanging around Schroeder who was playing his baby grand piano, and I do mean baby grand. Schroeder says; “It’s just no use! I can’t practice with you hanging around!

Lucy shouts: THE TRUTH IS YOU’RE EMBARRASSED BY A PRETTY FACE! THAT’S IT ISN’T IT?”

Schroeder has disappeared off scene. Lucy shrieks after him: “A PRETTY FACE MAKES YOU UNEASY, DOESN’T IT? HUH? DOESN’T IT?

Lucy then sinks down with her arm on the piano and declares: “He shouldn’t feel that way . . . Lots of people get embarrassed in the presence of a pretty face . . .”

Lot’s of people were undone by Dolley’s pretty face and her mesmerizing demeanor!