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#1555 John Quincy Adams Deserves Better

Listening to America

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The Importance of John Quincy Adams

Lindsey Graham: John Quincy Adams used parliamentary maneuvers to defeat a gag rule. He was able to do so one because he had this incredible attention to detail, but two, because of who he was,. Graham: It's not that he was just looking like an ambitious man for more roles. "I think it was a real commitment to the idea that once you were no longer president, you are a citizen," she says.

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