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Speaker 1: He was a man of his time who went on

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Speaker 1: to be one for the ages, serving our nation as

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Speaker 1: Secretary of State, then president, then congressman. From the city

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Speaker 1: of his birth, John Quincy Adams is now immortalized in bronze.

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Speaker 1: His statue the centerpiece of a new public park that

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Speaker 1: bears his name. Quincy Mayor Thomas Coke says John Quincy

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Speaker 1: Adams was much like his father, John Adams, the nation's

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Speaker 1: second president.

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Speaker 2: He was brilliant, he was devoted, dedicated, a rare individual,

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Speaker 2: and a man of principle. Him and his father both

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Speaker 2: did not get reelected because they were so principal. They

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Speaker 2: went against their party on certain issues and they were

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Speaker 2: thrown out. So this pattisonship stuff goes way back, not

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Speaker 2: just today, but they stood above it.

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Speaker 1: Adam's public life spanned a half century. He's remembered as

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Speaker 1: one of the most outspoken anti slavery advocates of his

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Speaker 1: time in Quincy. Mike maclub WBZ, Boston's news radio