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John Quincy Adams

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Noun1.John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams - 6th President of the United States; son of John Adams (1767-1848)

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As John Quincy Adams correctly observed: "America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
His four Oscar nominations were earned for playing an intensely bottled-up manservant (``The Remains of the Day,'' 1993), the anything-but-relaxed President Nixon (``Nixon,'' 1995), President John Quincy Adams dealing with a bloody slave mutiny (``Amistad,'' 1997) and, of course, the cannibalistic Dr.
First Son and President follows the life of John Quincy Adams to old age, when he successfully pled the case of the African mutineers aboard the slave ship Amistad.
 
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