Imperial Quotes
President John Adams, a Federalist, had a formal, European view of the Presidency. Mrs. Adams, unlike her predecessor, was heavily involved in partisan politics. Gallatin was one of the opposition leaders.
America initially withheld recognition of the 1917 Russian revolutionary government and joined a number of other nations in stationing troops around Russia. The fear of Marxism was the beginning of the Red Scare in America. Ironically, in the early years after the Russian revolution, Russia had a relatively democratic government. The dictatorship of a few at the head of the Communist Party had not yet evolved. Ironically, when we did recognize Russia again it was after it had gone through a short lived democratic period, and was in the hands of a dictatorial few. America and many other nations valued stability and predictability more so than democracy. Hearst was one of the few American notables who saw the hypocrisy of this.
