john adams was a wise man, John Adams as well as a political philosopher than as a politician, he is the one that was forged in adversity, but he has vast experience in America so that his experience makes him the better, Adams was born in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1735.
he as a Harvard-educated lawyer, he became identified with the cause of the onset of a patriot, so a delegation to the First and Second Continental Congress, he was a leader in the independence movement, During the Revolutionary War he served in France and Holland in diplomatic roles, and helped negotiate a peace treaty .
in 1785-1788 he served the Court of St. James, he returned to elected Vice President under George Washington, while the term as Vice President of the inexperience in the intelligence, and arrogance, he complained to his wife Abigail, "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me The most important office that ever the invention man contrived or his imagination conceived. "
when Adams became president, and war between France and Britain have caused great difficulty for the United States on the high seas and intense partisanship among competing factions within the Nation His administration focused on France, where the Directory, the ruling, refusing to accept the envoy America and has frozen the commercial relationship.
Adams sent three commissioners to France, but in the spring of 1798 word arrived that the French Foreign Minister Talleyrand and the Directory refused to negotiate with them unless they would first pay a substantial bribe. Adams reported the insult to Congress, and the Senate printed the correspondence, when it was the problem appears again.
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