Listen to John Adams and reclaim liberty from conservatives: The GOP is not at all in the business of expanding liberty as the founders envisioned -- Salon

In April 1817, precisely 200 years ago, 81-year-old former president John Adams wrote a marvelously candid letter to his onetime rival and successor as president, Thomas Jefferson. Adams was still getting hammered in print by a fellow New Englander whom George Washington had hired as secretary of state and Adams had fired, three years into his presidency, for political disloyalty and warmongering. The embittered Timothy Pickering refused to give Adams credit for any accomplishment, either as a committed Revolutionary or as chief executive. Adams returned the favor when he renewed his attacks on Jefferson’s legacy some years later....
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