Allie O'Muircheartaigh

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Washington is on the one-dollar bill, Jefferson on the two, and even Hamilton on the ten, but Adams appears on none. At Mount Rushmore, Washington and Jefferson gaze out shoulder to shoulder, and again, Adams is nowhere to be seen. In one of his more discerning comments, he would reflect late in life that “Mausoleums, Statues, Monuments will never be erected to me.”61
First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
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