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This talk of Hawkish Jefferson is wrong. In "John Adams", that recent bestseller, Jefferson opposed the creation of an American navy. Why? Adams was using it as a club to force Jefferson's beloved French from doing the same thing as the Barbary Pirates (see the XYZ Affair). It seems revolutionaries in silks can extort Americans, but rag heads cannot.

Since reading Adams, I have had a great deal of disenchantment with Jefferson who stands reveled as a sexual harasser, a dilettante, a poor administrator (he died in debt), a hypocrite, and soft of the French. But I suppose he had his good points.