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42 - 1776

The Worst of All Possible Worlds

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John Adams Horse Corner

There's a great conversation that Adams has with Franklin that feels fake. But these guys were so obsessed with history. John Adams actually wrote this in a letter. This idea that he said, well, the way that American history is going to be told. And he wrote this much later on as an old and bitter man. It kind of falls flat, I think, for that reason. The longer wheel in the foreground. Yeah. Let me try a freaking little friend's water wheel. So then yeah, so she goes up and now you know that Jefferson's going to write the declaration. He passes a note down to John Adams and he opens it up and he says, go away.

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