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People talk about the idea of service. What would he think about a former secretary of state making 225,000 to give a speech . John well, thats an interesting question. Of course, in his day politics was not a root to wealth. The opposite. And when he was a young man, he ran for the state legislature of massachusetts. Most of his friends who were all lawyers like him wouldnt do that because the theory was first you make dough as a merchant or a lawyer, whatever it was, and then when you are comfortable, you can afford to go into politics because no one ever made a nickel. Congressman in those days would get 9 as a per diem. Adams struggled economically his whole life but he thought that it was right that he struggle. And i think that, again, part of his sense of its Public Service is that you accept the fact that youre not going to make money doing it and youll die poor. Indeed, the president s who preceded adams, jefferson famously, but madison not so famously, monroe not so famously

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