No body like John Adams. They thought he was crazy and annoying. When he talked, every one said, "Sit down, some one open a window!!" open a window? why in the world did they say that? THERE WAS NO AIR CONDITIONING EINSTEIN!
2007-10-17 08:35:21 · 4 answers · asked by danica ^^ 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Are you off your meds again? I think his son Pres. John Q Adams liked him. So did Tomas Jefferson, later in life.
2007-10-17 08:39:02 · answer #1 · answered by Songbyrd JPA ✡ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Adams and Jefferson were two of the main people that were involved in writing the Declaration of Independence.
When Adams was the chief diplomat in Europe and Jefferson was in France, he and Jefferson had a good relationship. However when Adams was president, he appeared like a scared man, could not take criticism, and passed the Alien and Sedition Act to stop people from criticizing him.
He was not in the same political party as Jefferson and made a lot of decisions that Jefferson, his vice president, did not like.
They stopped communications for a long time, starting it not long from the day that they both died, and they both died on the same day. Adams, knowing that he was about to die, said "at least Jefferson lives," not knowing that Jefferson had died earlier that day.
If you read the letters of Jefferson and Adams (and Adams' wife), you can easily think that Jefferson was hitting on the poor woman pretty hard.
2007-10-17 08:45:39 · answer #2 · answered by Polyhistor 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you are talking about the movie "1776." He kept trying to open up the debate on independence, which no one wanted to talk about, so to change the subject everyone sings, "Someone ought to open up a window." Adams, in the movie and in real life, pushed the idea of independence.
By the way, nobody thought he was crazy. They did think he was annoying, though, in the Continental Congress. And somebody must have liked him, since he was elected President. Twice.
2007-10-17 08:54:00 · answer #3 · answered by marvymom 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Um...Ok, your confused. Accually people DID like John Adams, like his wife and kids, Josiah Quincy (who helped him with the Boston Massacer case and also brought it to him), thers also Thomas Jefferson who had corraspondence with him during their later years. A lot of people liked him, only he bugged people...Its the nature of laywers hun.
2007-10-17 09:15:25 · answer #4 · answered by Buffy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋