John Quincy Adams/presidency 1825%e2%80%931829

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    No European spring had shown him the same intermixture of delicate grace and passionate depravity that marked the Maryland May.
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)