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Show WHO SAID i 4 . I "Think of your forefather' Think of your posterity!" Thus spoke John Qul'ncv Adams i a speech delivered at t'lim'outh. las-sachusctts, las-sachusctts, on December 2, i?02. Few men have, had a broad -r training in the affairs of government. I nor a wider opportunity to become j versed In politics than had John Qulncy Adams. As a lad he accompanied accom-panied his father, John Adams, on several diplomatic missions to Europe Eu-rope and he received part of his odu-! odu-! cation abroad. On his return he en-j en-j tered Harvard graduating In 1 788. and passing the bar examinations In ! 1791, He then took an active Inter? ! est iu politics. Certain letters w hich I he published defending the i oqrsc of President Washington resulted In hi.i appointment as minister to Ihe Hague lie was later sent to Toi-tn- gal and he received the pot of ambassador am-bassador P.erlln when his father became president. In 1 7 S Adams was appointed Lo I draft a commercial treaty between j tho United States and Sweden. Before his labors were completed Jefferson 'became president and be was recall' ed. The Federalist party, that of John Quiney Adams and his lather, I was rapidly decLJn.lhg The p irty had j sufficient power in Massachusetts, j however to eleet the young' V dams i to the senate in 1.03. There on an ' important question of forelcru policy Adams disagreed with his party and abandoned it by resigning bis seat. I This action led to his aligning .with j another political group which eventually even-tually nande him president of the I I'nUed States an office which ho j could never have held as a therabei of the waning Federalist party. Adams became president in IS 2 5 I He was not a successful executive ami (failed of reelection. Hi- deith oc-j oc-j curred in 1S43. Wayne. D. McMur-' McMur-' ray. |