Michael W. Zuckerman Quotes
Benjamin Franklin was probably America’s first juvenile delinquent.
Michael W. Zuckerman, Historian, Statement, The History Channel, The Life of Benjamin Franklin, February 14, 2011
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Today, most Americans know little of Samuel Adams but see John Adams as a much larger and more important figure. But for the American Patriots fighting the Revolution, it was Sam Adams who made the most outstanding contributions to the political strategy and leadership.
Jefferson wrote more on more subjects than any other president in American history. For exa,ple, he wrote more letters during his presidency than any other president including the modern ones who had word processors and large staffs. So Jefferson wrote on almost every subject and expressed so many ideas that Lincoln could make this statement.
he always called him by his first name The name Mad Anthony Wayne stuck.
Adams liked hardly anyone. Washington, his fellow Federalist was President when Adams was Vice President. He had little use for fellow Federalist leader Alexander Hamilton. See {621582} . Washington was by no means illiterate. He was an excellent writer, and was a trained surveyor who also had strong mathematical skills. The founding fathers were an amazingly well educated group of men, and Washington was about average in that rarefied atmosphere. Jefferson and Hamilton who arguably were far more learned than Adams, and who worked with Washington in his cabinet, never complained about Washington's intellectual or education capability. The problem was Adams who was critical of almost all.
She was asked about the anxiety of young people who were being brought up under the possibility of nuclear conflict.
