<P> In the 1930s, Jefferson was held in higher esteem; President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933--45) and New Deal Democrats celebrated his struggles for "the common man" and reclaimed him as their party's founder . Jefferson became a symbol of American democracy in the incipient Cold War, and the 1940s and' 50s saw the zenith of his popular reputation . Following the civil rights movement of the 1950s and' 60s, Jefferson's slaveholding came under new scrutiny, particularly after DNA testing in the late 1990s supported allegations he had a relationship with Sally Hemings . </P> <P> Noting the huge output of scholarly books on Jefferson in recent years, historian Gordon Wood summarizes the raging debates about Jefferson's stature: "Although many historians and others are embarrassed about his contradictions and have sought to knock him off the democratic pedestal...his position, though shaky, still seems secure ." </P> <P> The Siena Research Institute poll of presidential scholars, begun in 1982, has consistently ranked Jefferson as one of the five best U.S. presidents, and a 2015 Brookings Institution poll of American Political Science Association members ranked him as the fifth greatest president . </P> <P> Jefferson has been memorialized with buildings, sculptures, postage, and currency . In the 1920s, Jefferson, together with George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, was chosen by sculptor Gutzon Borglum and approved by President Calvin Coolidge to be depicted in stone at the Mount Rushmore Memorial . </P>

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