[Perseverando]

Time for another great American (and world) history lesson from American Minute.

[JohnBrowdie]

adams and jefferson utterly despised each other when they were both active members of the federal government. jefferson arguably committed treason as adams’ vice president.

they were friends as revolutionaries. they reconciled (by mail, interestingly, not in person) in their very later years. but let’s not pretend that they were anything but the bitterest of enemies as governmental colleagues.

[KingLudd]

See a scan of the original draft for yourself here: https://www.loc.gov/resource/mtj1.001_0545_0548/?sp=1

[Sam Gamgee]

Bit off topic, but has anyone seen Hamilton, the broadway play now being broadcast on Disney plus? Wonder if it is woke garbage. And I have never really ever appreciated Hamilton, so thought it might be interesting.

[rxsid]

Ironically, Jefferson had included a passage in his original draft of the Declaration that admonished the English King for foisting slavery onto the colonies.

It was later removed by others.

[ClearCase_guy]

“Thomas Jefferson survives,” were rumored to be among Adams’ last words from his deathbed in Quincy, Mass. He was unaware that his friend died that day, July 4, 1826, at his beloved Monticello estate more than 500 miles away in Virginia.

[MosesKnows]

We ought not to die before we have explained ourselves to each other. Thomas Jefferson to John Adams