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#1555 John Quincy Adams Deserves Better

Listening to America

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Abigail's Concerns About Louisa's Return to America

Abigail Adams worried that her son's new wife would be un-American. John Quincy Adams wanted in many respects to be a poet, a man of letters as they said then. He never really loved being a lawyer and was good at almost anything he set his mind to but didn't love it. When you think of the most intellectually prepared presidents in American history, Jefferson and John Adams are among them.

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