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TIL Lifelong Friends John Adams and Thomas Jefferson Both Passed on July 4th, 1826, 50 Years After America Declared Independence.
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They hated each other until their careers were over. Then they reconciled. They were not lifelong friends.
Friends? They hated each other!
I know a suicide pact when I see one dammit
Any good conspiracy theories on this? Illumanti death pact perhaps?
They were more like frenemies, than “lifelong friends,” although their rivalry mellowed towards the ends of lives.
Adams’ last words were “Jefferson still survives”, not knowing Jefferson had died only hours before. Fitting since, as others mentioned, they were rivals for much of their lives
Hardly lifelong friends. Political archenemies most of their careers. Became closer later in life when Adams wrote to Jefferson in an effort to ‘explain himself’. These letters clarify much of the politics of the early years of the United States.
Their subsequent deaths, both on July 4, 1826, is often cited as ‘proof’ of the exceptionalism of the American political experiment.
The jury is still out on that one …
James Monroe died exactly 1826 days later on July 4th. Idk bout you but that’s a little too coincidental, to me.