Founding Brothers
What did Jefferson include in his congratulatory letter to Adams?
The Collaborators
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The Collaborators
Jefferson noted that he regretted the incidents that separated them, and that he'd had no desire to have been "thrust" into the election at all. He wrote, "I have no ambition to govern men..... It is a painful and thankless task."
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