evidence: One Thing John Adams Had More of Than Any Other Founding Father [...] John Adams was notoriously difficult to be around. William Grimes wrote for the New York Times that "if you could bend time and space to hang out with the Founding Fathers, here's a tip: steer clear of John Adams." [...] Adams once wrote to his wife: "I have no confidence in any Man who is not exact in his morals." Exact in this morals is exactly who John Adams always was, no matter the outcome. It is one of the reasons McCullough defines Adams as "one of the most important Americans who ever lived."