by Peter A. Belmont / 2012-02-24
© 2012 Peter Belmont

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I am hooked on David McCullough’s biographies: I’ve read his “Truman” and am now reading his “John Adams”.

Here is a tidbit, advice from a mother (John Quincy Adams’s mother) on how to dress as a senator, p. 585-6. Perhaps she worried because as a New Englander and his father’s son, he might tend toward an overly dour manner of dress.

I do not wish a Senator to dress like a beau, but I want him to conform so far as to the fashion as not to incur the character [reputation] of singularity, nor give occasion to the world to ask what kind of mother he had or to charge upon a wife negligence and inattention when she is guiltless. The neatest man, observed a lady the other day, wants his wife to pull up his collar and mind that his coat is brushed.

My friend! Our country is a masquerade! No party, no man now dares to avow his real sentiments. All is disguise, vizard, cloak.

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