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Episode: John Adams Part 1: Why Were the French Attacking American Ships When Adams Was Elected?
Description: In 1801, John Adams had just lost his reelection campaign to Thomas Jefferson when he received a call from the future …
John Adams had the impossible job of being president following the beloved George Washington. In these episodes you’ll learn how he felt about this challenge.
How and why, he was preparing for war and negotiating for peace simultaneously.
And how one event would have changed the election results, but it came a few days too late.
At the peak of his intellectual career, Adams agreed to be vice president and was...