#1533 A Conversation with Hamilton Scholar Hal Bidlack
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Jefferson Is Not Quite the Same as Burr
Jefferson is a little bit devious in some of his political machinations that Jefferson does not always tell the truth although I think Hamilton exaggerates that. He pretends to be above the fray but in fact he's just another politician I think so in another letter Hamilton wrote that Jefferson most earnestly quests after the presidential chair which is as you know quite an insult at the time. The other thing that Hamilton had going for him Washington during the Revolutionary War talked about Hamilton's ability to think for him now and maybe Jefferson isn't precisely one of us, says John Adams.
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