![]() ![]() ![]() It was then that his mother wrote, “For dear as you are to me, I had much rather you should have found your grave in the ocean you have crossed, or any untimely death crop you in your infant years, rather than see you an immoral profligate or a graceless child.” Geez, mom! He graduated from Harvard in 1787 and just seven years later, in 1794, President Washington appointed him the American minister to the Netherlands. He crossed the Atlantic with his famous father in 1778, on a diplomatic mission, when he was only 10 years old. His formidable mother Abigail made him read out loud to her, at the age of seven, Charles Rollin's Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians. It seems to me that JQ was never allowed to be a boy. He was the sixth president of the United States, son of the second, John Adams the revolutionary. ![]() Somehow, I feel sorriest for John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) of all the one-term presidents. ![]()
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