# It's not easy being No. 2: The presidency of John Adams

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Podcast: [Think from KERA](https://stenobird.com/podcast/think-from-kera-875208)
Published: 2026-06-29T17:00:00+00:00
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George Washington may have set the standard for American presidents, but those precedents wouldn’t have mattered if John Adams hadn’t followed through on them. Lindsay Chervinsky, executive director of the George Washington Presidential Library, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the second U.S. president, how he solidified many of the functions of the chief executive we still know in the 21st Century, and why that meant he would sacrifice a second term. Her book is “ Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic. ” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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