Blog category: Potomac
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John Quincy Adams’ Swimming Adventures
July 14, 2017
From the age of 50 until two years before his death at age 80, sixth US President John Quincy Adams went swimming almost every summer in the Potomac River in Washington, DC. Despite the protests of his wife and his friends, he refused to give up swimming, even after he nearly drowned.
We must confess that fate, which sports with man, makes merry work with the affairs of this world.
Napoleon Bonaparte