Why doesn’t John Adams have a memorial?

Washington Post ^ | 07/02/2011 | Akexander Hefner

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Uh, we don’t build memorials to lawyers

Obviously, Abe Lincoln must have been an exception.

[allmendream]

You would be correct.

It has been estimated that everyone with even a drop of European blood is well over 99% likely to be a descendant of Charlemagne.

Even if some few are not, their likely mate is over 99% likely to be one, so their children will be.

Anyone who has children who have children who have children - eventually becomes the ancestor of a large % of humanity.

[Pharmboy]

Thanks for the ping. IMHO, Adams deserves a memorial, imperfect though he was. One of the key things he did right was pick Washington as CIC of the Continental Army...

[Eastbound]

I don’t remember that scene. Maybe I’m talking about a different movie. This was on a CD and produced by the Mormon Church.

[gorush]

"What revolution, save the American revolution, ended up being for the better? I can’t think of any."

Nor can I. It took a special culture for it to succeed here. Our culture is far different now and, with the huge increase of government dependency, I doubt that a renewed effort to reinstate the Constitution would succeed now...certainly not at the ballot box.

[max americana]

>Actually Napoleon was very pro-American. His father had lived here a while.<

So did his 2nd uncle. Even when uttered on his deathbed ‘they wanted me to be like Washington” (lost in translation), Napoleon in an autob I read 4 years ago, maintained a hidden fascination and worship of Washington and Jefferson.

[muawiyah]

For many it was to retrieve the ancient rights of free Scotsmen. That was a two-fer.

[muawiyah]

Some of us "less so" than others of course.

[youngidiot]

I remember there being some controversy when Roosevelt was added. He doesn’t really belong there. As I recall, Borglum added him because he was a fellow “progressive”, which seems more plausible to me.

[JenB]

You’re right that his descendants know who he is. I’m on, through my maternal line, and was very proud growing up to study his and Abigail’s letters to each other, among other things. It’s hard to take liberal notions of female repression seriously when you’ve learned about a woman like Abigail Adams who stayed home and kept the family going while her husband was off starting a country.

[the scotsman]

I thought it was superb.

Nice to see a film or TV series about 1776-1783 that didnt have the British as Redcoat nazis and didnt reduce the conflict to simplistic tosh (yes, Mr Patriot Gibson, thats you)