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6905. PRESIDENCY, Jefferson, Adams and.—[further continued] .

As to Mr. Adams, particularly,
I could have no feelings which
would revolt at being placed in a secondary
station to him. I am his junior in life, was
his junior in Congress, his junior in the
diplomatic line, his junior lately in the civil


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government.—
To James Madison. Washington ed. iv, 155. Ford ed., vii, 99.
(Jan. 1797)

See Adams, John.