tackedtothewall:In fact, so much so that John Adams, jealous of the attention heaped on Franklin a
tackedtothewall: In fact, so much so that John Adams, jealous of the attention heaped on Franklin and Washington throughout the Atlantic World, acidly remarked that history would assume “that Dr. Franklin’s electrical rod smote the earth and out sprung General Washington. That Franklin electrified him with his rod, and thence forward these two conducted all the policy negotiations, legislatures, and war.” Letters of Benjamin Rush. Vol 2, ed. L. H. Butterfield (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951), 1207., cited in -- source link
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