The Declaration Of Independence I Always

Adams wrote this in a letter to Benjamin Rush on June 21, 1811, expressing his long-simmering frustration that Thomas Jefferson had received disproportionate credit for the Declaration of Independence. Adams himself had been the Declaration's foremost legislative champion on the floor of the Continental Congress, nominating Jefferson as its author, yet history had largely written him out of that story. The letter was part of the correspondence Rush used to eventually broker the famous reconciliation between Adams and Jefferson.