John Adams Jr. Year 2 Part 2

Some notes about the quality of this episode: I did my best to eliminate it, but you may still hear some background noise throughout the episode. Sorry about that! I make an allusion to the American occupation of Iraq and mistakenly claim that the occupation ended in 2015. While I was thinking about the surge of troops President Obama sent in 2014 (and that phase ended in 2017), the simple truth is that the United States never left Iraq. US troops are still in Iraq! In this episode of Better than Washington, we resume our discussion of John Adams Jr.'s 2nd year as President of the United States. And we mostly talk about how his choices helped the United States fight a naval conflict that was kind of a war but not really a war. Almost like, a "quasi"...battle...thing... The song used is "Americana" by Mr. Smith. You can find this song at the Free Music Archive. the opinions of this podcast do not reflect the opinions of Spotify, Anchor or any advertisers, sponsors, creators of musical works, or guests appearing within the podcast. Resources used for this episode include: https://www.founderoftheday.com/founder-of-the-day/stoddert-navy https://www.archives.gov/files/education/lessons/new-us-navy/images/stoddert-nomination.gif https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/new-us-navy/stoddert-nomination.html https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/research-guides/z-files/zb-files/zb-files-s/stoddert-benjamin.html https://millercenter.org/president/adams/stoddert-1798-secretary-of-the-navy https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/quasi-war/ https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/major-events/the-quasi-war-with-france/ https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/quasi-war https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/nmusn/explore/photography/forgotten-wars-19th-century/quasi-war-france.html Content Warnings: this podcast does contain discussions involving historical events in which the United States of America has been involved. There will always be frank discussions of slavery, Native American genocide, and other upsetting events.