John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had a difficult relationship. Sometimes friends, sometimes enemies, these two were as different politically as they were physically. Jefferson received a bust of Adams by John B. Binon in 1825 and kept it in this room. Jefferson and Adams first became friends during the American Revolution. Partisan politics in the 1790s damaged their friendship, but they reconciled and became pen pals, exchanging letters over the final fourteen years of their life. They both died on Independence Day in 1826. 

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