Max Baucus: “Mr. President, like a lot of others, I have read the David McCullough biography of President John Adams. I commend it to…”

“Mr. President, like a lot of others, I have read the David McCullough biography of President John Adams. I commend it to anybody listening who has not read it. It is a wonderful story of a colossus of a man, John Adams. It is so inspirational, especially reading about that era in our country where men and women were very concerned about their futures, most of them having left England, oppressed by Great Britain, and how they reacted to it, with the variety of people in the colonies at that time with different backgrounds and certainly not having present-day communications. Nothing traveled faster than the speed of a horse. It gave people time to reflect. John Adams read thousands of books. He read all the political philosophers of the time in original Greek, in original Latin, as did a lot of our Founding Fathers and women, too. Abigail Adams clearly was a great force in helping our country come together. John Adams, as a major force for what was right for America, helped persuade the delegates assembled at the Continental Congress trying to decide the future of our country to break away and declare independence.”