My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office
that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
-- John Adams (1735-1826) 2nd US President, 1789 letter written when he was VP.
that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
-- John Adams (1735-1826) 2nd US President, 1789 letter written when he was VP.
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