Continental Army officer, Delegate to the Federal Convention of 1787, Treasury Secretary, U.S. Senator from NY, 1805-1809, 4th President of the USA, 1809-1813

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Joined January 2024
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Replying to @RBrookhiser
It is not "law-fare" when the defendant is an actual criminal. Trump is the PRECISE type of demagogue that I warned America about over 200 years ago!
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Replying to @PrezWisdom
Not many people know that George Washington enjoyed fly fishing.
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Replying to @TylerBoliver
I remember hearing talk about the death of General Wolf in Canada, but as I was a toddler when that happened, it must have been adults talking about it after the fact.
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Replying to @ArseGrammatica
Any man who spoke thus to a lady in my presence would have been horsewhipped, for he had clearly demonstrated he was unworthy of a duel.
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Replying to @mcgillmd921
The scourge of the Equestrian Order! Humbler of Mithridates! Bane of Gaius Marius!
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Replying to @HistoryWJacob
I may be slightly biased on this question . . . . but that Hamilton fellow was a pretty sharp customer!
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Replying to @DougWahl1
Good for her! (I bet Dad gave her some of the money)
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Replying to @HistoryWJacob
Jefferson flatters himself. He was rarely ever confrontational in person; he preferred to sit and stew, then go behind my back to Washington. And when that didn't work, he would have one of his hired poison pens slander me in the press.
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Replying to @TylerBoliver
President Trump surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban, by treaty, and set the deadline for withdrawal before Biden ever took office.
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Replying to @WalshFreedom
I think the Democratic Party must do everything it possibly can to maximize its chance of winning the next election. Once Trumpism is dead, it can get back to choosing "firsts."
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Replying to @AmRevResurrect
A brave and gallant commander. His death was a blow to our cause.
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Replying to @HistoryWJacob
An epic biopic about my old friend John Glover.
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Replying to @TammiMinoski
While my rhetoric was perhaps unduly harsh, it was no more so than that which Jefferson's minions (for he always employed others to wield the poison pen on his behalf) wrote about me. And history has proven that accusation correct.
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Replying to @TylerBoliver
Any follower you lose for posting such a self-evident truth was not worth having to begin with.
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Replying to @ModernCeasar
I am not an admirer of either Cato, Elder or Younger. Self-righteous Roman puritans, deaf to the need for reform, and filled with hatred for any who were more accomplished than them - especially if they happened to be patricians!
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Replying to @BBHerodotus
By all accounts, he lived those words every day of his life.
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Every October I remember those glorious days at Yorktown - watching as death and destruction rained down on our tormentors, and Cornwallis' paths to retreat were cut away from him, one by one, till he had no choice but to surrender! These were the best of times. . .
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Replying to @SalinaBBaker
How well I remember the heady emotions of that day! After years of desperately struggling just to survive, we finally stood on the brink of victory.
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