[Opinion] The downward spiral of disgraceful misconduct

Washington Examiner

Lean Right

Mixed Factuality

Individual: Philip Anschutz

The downward spiral of disgraceful misconduct

When John Quincy Adams was informed by a committee that he was elected president by the House of Representatives, for the first and only time through the procedure set by the Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution, he responded in writing. “The answer was not very gracious,” writes historian George Dangerfield. “If it were possible, wrote Mr. Adams, by declining the office to cause an immediate election that would bring about a clearer result, he