Letter to President George W. Bush from David McCullough

THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN David McCuLLough 12/16/02 Music Street, West Tisbury, Massachusetts 02575-0148 December L, Zooz Sear Mr. President, As you here signing the hill for the Adams memorial at your desk last Monday, A couldn't help think of what John Adams might have felt had he teen there, too, natching over your shoulder. A tried to imagine the pleasure it would have given him, the lift of heart, to know that the nation has at last conferring such recognition s thought, too, of how extremely pleased he would be to All that the house that he and Aligail here the first to overpy still stands, and that om system of government is still that which he and others fought for and lalored so long and hardly to hing into being. It stuch me also that the good cheer you gase to the occasion would Preservation Copy - Miscellaneous Handwriting hould here pleased the old gentlemen no end, just as it did all of us who here present. But then may le he has there! A felt immensely honored and pleased to have her included, and A thank you. New me have to make sure that a memorial in keeping with Adams place in the founding of the nation, a memorial to speak to future generations, comes to pass with the hoadest possible support. With much gratitude, admination and harm mishes for Christmas- Dail