[Boiler Plate]

“and a direct descendant of founding father John Adams.”

That means Rush is marrying Jane Fonda’s cousin.

[Tublecane]

“and a direct descendant of founding father John Adams”

Is this really significant? It’s been about 200 years since Adams died. He must have millions of descendants. That’s an arbitrary number, obviously, but it’s a lot, I’m sure. People forget (or perhaps lack a solid conception of) how wide the branches of family trees expand as generations pass.