Joseph Alexander Adams

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it's really interesting because you would have thought they were both members of the same administration and same party but they really hated each other and uh... hamilton tried to get to rig the election in seventeen ninety six that adams won so that adams would lose mostly because hamilton wanted to run the federalist party and he knew that adams couldn't be controlled he was too independent when washington was still in charge as long as hamilton was performing under the aegis of washington's shadow he was you could count on him in fact he was a genius he woulda got the highest score on the SATs but but once washington goes the the rudder on hamilton's mind starts to go crazy and he has visions of taking over an army and marching through the united states and putting down the republicans in virginia putting them all in jail taking florida going out and then taking new orleans and just for good measure if he has time going to take mexico to crazy schemes crazy uh and adams says that he is the only person in america other than burr who could do a napoleon impersonation perfectly napoleon he says they deserve each other and when one of them kills the other one that's exactly you know what's really going on psychologically yeah uh... in his autobiography he says that hamilton is that bastard brat of a scots peddler and uh... which is literally true and uh... he hated him and uh... because he saw him as a person who was who violated the public trust who who was the most dangerous man in america and uh... who had used his powers as much as possible to undermine his presidency the army that they raised was called the provisional army right it was supposedly an army provisional upon arrival of the french fleet which never arrived right they went uh... to uh egypt egypt instead where the british wiped out uh... the fleet at that's right abbott key or somewhere like that this excerpt is brought to you by the massachusetts school of law