The presidential election of eighteen hundred is our subject this week.The candidates included President John Adams of the Federalist Party and Vice President Thomas Jefferson of the Republican Party.Here with our story are Frank Oliver and Shep O'Neal.As president, John Adams was head of the Federalist Party.But the power of that position belonged, in fact, to former treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton.For this and other reasons, Adams did not like Hamilton.He said: "Thomas Jefferson will be a good president, if elected.I would rather be a minister to Europe under Jefferson than to be a president controlled by Hamilton."
