... term as president. Thomas Jefferson succeeded Adams. In appearance, Adams was short and stout, with a ruddy complexion. He seldom achieved popularity during his long political career. Adams was anything but a cold man, and those who knew him well, loved him. But his bluntness, impatience, and vanity made more enemies than friends. On the great decisions of his public career, history has ... ...

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... quite recovered. Very briefly, Jefferson and Madison did not expressly object to paying back the national debt that had been accumulated during the war of independence, but they did not agree that it should be paid back in full, nor to all lenders. "During the course of the war and afterward, many holders of continental bonds, often veterans and farmers who ... ...

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