Like John Adams, Joe Biden could not resist using his power to suppress free speech and persecute political opponents.

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers ... He lost and became Vice-president to George Washington during both terms ...

But the former vice president lacked ... he revealed to his cabinet and congress that he would send another envoy to France. He concealed the fact that John Quincy Adams, then minister to Prussia ...

October 19: John ... Navy. Congress approves. July 14: Adams signs into law the four-part Alien and Sedition Acts. The Naturalization and Alien Acts curb immigrants' rights; the Sedition Act ...