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September 2 "No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it."

Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President, 1801-1809 This quote was part of a letter written upon the election of John Adams as the new nation's second after the retirement of George Washington. "These are hard wages for the services of all the active and healthy years of one's life. I had retired after five and twenty years of constant occupation in public affairs and total abandonment of my own... I know well that no man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honey moon would be as short in that case as in any other, and it's moments of extasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred... our Eastern friend (Adams)will be struggling with the storm which is gathering over us, perhaps be shipwrecked in it. This is certainly not a moment to covet the helm." - Thomas Jefferson to Edward Rutledge, Monticello, December 27, 1796(Rutledge, from South Carolina, was a fellow signer of The Declaration of Independence.) In 1796, Jefferson had been elected Vice-President, coming in second place to Adams in the electoral college balloting. Jefferson soon had his personal life and political reputation questioned as he moved himself into position to be elected President in place of Adams in 1801.