John Quincy Adams, n.All

John Quincy Adams is said to be a disgusting man to do business with: coarse, dirty, clownish in his address and stiff and abstracted in his opinions, which are drawn from books exclusively.

John Quincy Adams took the oath of office on a book of constitutional law, rather than a Bible.

John Quincy Adams is a man whose disposition is as perverse and mulish as that of his father.

John Quincy Adams had a pet alligator (given to him by a French general) which he kept in one of the White House bathtubs

John Quincy Adams is the most doggedly and systematically repulsive of all the men to waste civilities upon.

John Quincy Adams is a man of reserved, cold, austere, and forbidding manners: my political adversaries say, a gloomy misanthropist, and my personal enemies, an unsocial savage.