Hi everybody. Today! Bye, mommy! It's going to talk about John.

Again. Thank you, Noah, for introducing John Adams, the second president of the United States.

As we learned last week, John Adams was the first vice president of the United States while George Washington was president.

John Adams became our second president by defeating runner-up Thomas Jefferson in a very close election in the year 1796.

As a result of finishing second place, Thomas Jefferson became John Adams' vice president.

The 1796 election was a nasty one, with lots of insults and name-calling going both ways.

For those of you that think mudslinging elections are a fairly new concept, think again.

The election of 1796 is still considered the nastiest one in

presidential history. John Adams, like George Washington, was a federalist. That may be the only

thing that Adams had in common with our first president. Unfortunately, for Adams, his vice president,

Thomas Jefferson, was in another political party called the Democratic Republicans.

As a result, many of their opinions on political matters were very different.

The list of differences between George Washington and John Adams is long.

John Adams was a lawyer who graduated from Harvard. George Washington, on the other hand,

was homeschooled. John Adams was the first president to live in the White House, which at the time was

actually called the president's house. When Washington was president, he lived in New York first,

and then Philadelphia when the capital moved to Philly.

John Adams had five children, one of whom would become the sixth president of the United States.

George Washington had no children of his own. The list of differences goes on and on. There are two things that

really doomed John Adams as president.

The first is that he kept George Washington's cabinet. As you may remember from episode 51,

a cabinet is just a few advisors. The president has to help him make important decisions.

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