Goosebumps!!
Two bitter rivals, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, fought over how this nation would be led. Adams and his Federalist Party lashed out at printing presses through thugs and the Sedition Act. Jefferson used the Sedition Act to destroy the Federalist Party. [I should bring some of that history here.]
On the Fourth of July — the Independence Day of 1826 — last words of John Adams: “Thomas Jefferson survives.”
On that same day, within hours, Thomas Jefferson also passed away.
Coincidence?