Bob Crawford
speaker
602 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 23 Jun
Bob Crawford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But more so than not, they're longer than shorter, and they are consistent.
When they are not consistent are these few times in his life where he suffered from depression.
And so he loses re-election, and the inauguration of Jackson is in March, as it was back then.
In May, he and his wife, Louisa Catherine, they're in Washington.
They're waiting for their oldest son, George Washington Adams, to come and help them move back to Massachusetts.
And they learn that George jumped off the back of a steamship and committed suicide in Long Island Sound.
And so Adams is devastated.
Look, John Quincy Adams had two brothers.
who were alcoholics and died early deaths and had troubled adulthoods.
John Quincy Adams had two sons who were alcoholics, died early deaths in early adulthood, and they couldn't live up to the family name, right?
They were very troubled men.
And so that pattern is eerie.
And Charles Francis Adams, John Quincy's surviving son, his youngest son, he writes at one point in his diary, he says, I wonder if temperance doesn't run in people's families.
He realized his mother's side of the family, there's a lot of alcoholism, before it's called alcoholism.
And he says, I wonder if this isn't an illness.
So it's really remarkable and troubling.
But Adams goes through these periods of crippling depression.
And he writes, he will miss a few days, he will miss some time writing, but then often he writes through it.
He talks about
Oh, the things that bring me joy, I don't feel like doing anymore.
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