00:30The two notoriously did not get along and did not see eye to eye on most issues to a
00:54point where they would refuse to even meet.
00:59And so the campaign of 1800, it was one of the nastiest elections in American history.
01:13John Adams chose to stay out of it.
01:17And there's even a story of Jefferson running into Adams, I think even on the streets.
01:22Jefferson says to Adams, you could end this by just, you know, breaking the tie because
01:28everybody knows that Burr is kind of this wild character, kind of notorious.
01:33And Adams refused.
01:46There's a happy ending, though.
01:48The two eventually made up and became friends again.
02:18Andrew Jackson's inauguration definitely broke from tradition.
02:22It was essentially one big party.
02:25This definitely frightened many of the so-called status quo that were in Washington, D.C.
02:49Radical Republicans, essentially, they all kind of conspired and said, how can we get
02:56Andrew Johnson out of our way so we can pass this legislation to give African-Americans
03:02rights? They found kind of a workaround.
03:04They passed a law that they knew that he would break.
03:19Grant had strongly criticized Johnson as far as him being an obstacle to reconstruction
03:27policies. So that was another reason why Johnson did not want to be there for Grant's
03:33inauguration. Johnson's just like, I'm out of here.
03:35Andrew Johnson did not want to be anywhere near D.C.
03:39That's why he wasn't there.
03:41It was really like he was against everybody.
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