Presidential Fight Club: NE Regional 1- John Adams vs. John Quincy Adams




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Summary: John Adams vs. John Quincy Adams Stats of Fighters: Name: John Adams Height: 5’7 1/2 Weight: 175 Military experience: None Special abilities: Supreme self-assurance. He defended the five British soldiers guilty of the Boston Massacre in 1770 in the city itself, the hotbed of anti-British sentiment, and won the case. He can also intimidate any opponent by his hideous ugliness. The opposition called him a hermaphrodite “which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.” Name: John Quincy Adams Height: 5’7 1/2 Weight: 175 Military experience: None Special abilities: Extreme versatility. He was the man of the house at age eight when his father left and the Revolutionary War happened right outside his house. He went with the elder Adams on his European diplomatic journeys at age 14, serving as private secretary and interpreter for the American minister to Russia. John Quincy Adams also swam the Potomac every morning, naked, at 5 a.m., even as a fifty-eight-year-old president.