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As we rethink our approaches to the buffet table, we might tip the birthday bonnet to Abigail Adams, nee Smith, wife of the second president of the U.S and mother of the sixth; she was born this date in 1744. In a letter to husband John, she expressed a sentiment that might usefully be heeded by all of his successors: “We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”
Abigail Adams (portrait by Benjamin Blythe)
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