resign defeat to go back home which at what time those and started to coalesce around jackson draft him starting in 1824. we are used to permanent election cycles but that wasn't the case back and so the issue was adams and adams and adams. on top of that if you have a president that his opponents point out to point to the policies that have failed when you charge him with the intellectual as well. and it is not a landslide. but it is not that close.

>> with your estimate of performance with that grand strategic vision? what has the most satisfaction and? in to secure so with that personal gratification so to talk about of a grand strategy tel is different roles the different places that is appropriate to

working and executed at the appropriate time. to is your question directly when he was secretary of state the primary goal with hegemony on the continent it was not morally attractive but was successful to secure that objective that no execution as i talked about and with slavery had the vision but the country was not there yet. to confer to into actual policies so relate be allowed to say that if you read the official pronouncement that is true.

and he has a great series of letters it is such great fodder and he says if anyone will talk about the successes of the monroe administration it will point squarely at the department of state and those are what achieved all of them. slavery is not the main issue but personally from the satisfaction pointed deal the atoms are happier when they are an opposition if you want to have something to really canst dash rail against to be a politician to use snoots

things over is a precarious position but when you can argue something that is not all the bad but a moral evil that is much better for you. with john and john quincy adams they have a way with their popularity. that has no longer a national politician as a congressman he doesn't have to make excuses and not good at consensus building but he doesn't have to. . .

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