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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jimmy Carter redefined his legacy after his presidency. Other presidents, especially Hoover and Nixon, tried but failed to outrun or outwork their unhappy presidential legacies. Like John Quincy Adams ...