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John Adams
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    John Adams once described being in the position as "I am nothing."  (source)
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    But—leaving them to study a portrait of John Adams near the coat check, where they were waiting for Mrs. DeFrees to drop off her mink, and making my way through the crowded rooms—there was no one I recognized except Mrs. Barbour, whom I really didn't feel I could face, only she saw me before I could get by and caught me by the sleeve.  (source)
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    —LETTER FROM JOHN ADAMS TO HIS WIFE, ABIGAIL  (source)
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    It was here, Robert, at the very core of this young American nation, that our brightest forefathers—John Adams, Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine—all warned of the profound dangers of interpreting the Bible literally.  (source)
    John Adams = 2nd President of the United States
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    John Adams, who had come to know Reed in Philadelphia, described him as "very sensible,"  (source)
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    But there was only one Federalist politician whose opinion young John Quincy valued above his own—John Adams.  (source)
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    Curiously and remarkably, John Adams, the future president, foresaw the role of American English even before he knew that the American Revolution would succeed.  (source)
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    At the time when John Adams had a little army at Cincinnati, ready to go down and take New Orleans, there were no Western correspondents to the Eastern Press.  (source)
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    John Adams, Dr. Benjamin Rush, and other important men met at the London Coffee House to discuss revolutionary strategies.  (source)
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    I am descended from John Adams on my grandmother's side (her maiden name was Bates, and her family came to America on the Mayflower); yet, in our town, it was my grandfather's name that had the clout, and my grandmother wielded her married name with such a sure sense of self-possession that she might as well have been a Wheelwright and an Adams and a Bates.  (source)
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    Kennedy, like every president since John Adams became the White House's first resident in 1800, has learned that life inside the White House is complicated.  (source)
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    Attorney James Putnam of Worcester had been John Adams's mentor in the law.  (source)
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    "I do not disapprove of your conduct in the business of Louisiana," John Adams wrote his son, "though I know it will become a very unpopular subject in the northern states...I think you have been right!"  (source)
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