On November 25, 1947 bids for the reconstruction of the McLean House were opened and April 9, 1949, 84 years after the historic reunification of the meeting, the McLean house was opened by the National Park Service for the first time to the public. At the opening ceremony April 16, 1950, after a speech by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Douglas Southall Freeman, the American General Grant and Robert E. Lee IV, the direct descendants of Robert E. Lee and Ulysses Grant, cut the ribbon. The event was attended by an audience of about 20,000. . .
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