John Adams was born on October 30 ... but he claimed he was too busy with committee work, so the task fell to Virginian Thomas Jefferson. Adams craved recognition above all, and he privately ...

John Adams called the Alien and Sedition Acts of ... that diplomacy must end the French crisis. But the two did not work cooperatively with one another, in part because Jefferson wanted the ...

Between 1778 and 1788, John Adams served his country as a diplomat in France, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. His independent, unbending temperament was not ideal for diplomacy, and his ...

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in ...

John Adams is an American composer and conductor ... To enable all images to work in the Powerpoint files please save the file to your computer. To save to your computer: PC - right-click and ...

Jefferson first read Callender's work in Europe ... and grooming John Quincy as his heir to the throne. Adams was a "hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force of a man ...

John Adams expected great things from his eldest son, John Quincy. "You came into life with advantages which will disgrace you if your success is mediocre. ... And if you do not rise to the head ...