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in
Philadelphia in the summer of 1776.
As Jefferson vowed, Adams was the
"colossus of independence."
3
Far from being the cold and col
orless Puritan he often perceived to
be, Adams loved a joke, was fond of
tobacco and alcohol, and delighted in
good talk
- lectures and
conferences. Whenever he traveled to another city to speak,
he inquired about out-of-print bookstores in the vicinity. He
also planned his vacation trips around expeditions to rare
bookstores and auctions. "I pretty well scoured the country
- word
of the deal reached Washington. rhe
Johnson
team believed
that the
September Dean Rusk ordered the
American ambassador to The Hague
to inquire of Dutch officials when
the ships would sail and \ hen the
title would officially
pass into
[North
- vision
when he had been campaigning
for another Republican, at a time
when the GOP had no follower
in the state to speak f. "Hey, did
anybody ever tell you that you look
like Jim Baker?' inquired the vot
er. "Yes, often," said the amused
Baker. The voter
