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Trading Up
Why a massive trade deal is the key to the Asia
pivot -- and to America's future.
pivot -- and to America's future.
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“He would not bend on anything he considered a matter of principle, no matter what the possible cost to his own happiness. And with Adams, practically everything was a matter of principle.”
― John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
― John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
“Adams derived bitter satisfaction from the new administration’s peccadilloes. He sent letters to Charles and to Abby describing the White House fracas over Peggy Eaton, a tavernkeeper’s daughter whom Jackson’s secretary of war and close confidante, John Eaton, had married and whom the wives of other cabinet members and of Vice President Calhoun refused to meet. Secretary”
― John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
― John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
“To know [John Quincy Adams] is not to love him. It is, however, to admire him greatly.”
― John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
― John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
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