How To Analyze John Quincy Adams's Job Performance
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John Quincy Adams Presidential Profile John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. He was the son of former president and former first lady, John and Abigail Adams. In 1767, John Quincy Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts. John Quincy attended Harvard University and soon became a lawyer afterwards. Then at the age of twenty-six he began his career into politics. During his political career, he has assumed many different positions such as Minister to the Netherlands and Russia. He was also elected to the United States Senate. His highest political office, before the Presidency, was Secretary of State (Unger). In this paper I will use Fred Greenstein’s criteria to asses John Quincy’s presidential…show more content… John Quincy had a virtually nonexistent approach to public communication. John Quincy was known to have a reserved and cold demeanor. Even though John Quincy had an unattractive demeanor, he did have the option to promote his presidency by using an administration- sponsored newspaper. However, he did not ever use it because he refused to subsidize a newspaper to praise his talents and criticize his rivals (Greenstein). The second criterion that Greenstein uses to asses presidential job performance is the president’s organizational capacity. John Quincy had a very poor organizational capacity. John Quincy would retain members in his administration that he knew were working against him. He would consult his cabinet before taking public actions. However, he had reluctances to ignoring their advice (Greenstein). The third criterion that Greenstein uses to asses presidential job performance is the president’s political skill. John Quincy had hardly any political skill as a president. He took actions that were against his interest. He would persist even after being warned. The most damaging action he did was appointing Henry Clay to Secretary of State before his inauguration. This caused mobilization in opposition of his presidency from the very beginning