Secrets Of Our Founding Fathers
July, 2005
THEY FOUNDED THIS GREAT NATION, BUT NO ONE IS PERFECTIf great men have great flaws, the founding fathers were truly giants. Historians know them as a quarrelsome bunch. John Adams was the snarliest of all. He despised Ben Franklin, for instance, whom he considered a phony, and had a falling-out with Thomas Jefferson that culminated in the vicious presidential campaign of 1800. When he lost, the incumbent Adams refused to attend Jefferson's inauguration. Adams was also bitterly jealous of the nat...
