That's 2 (Gerald Ford)

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

No, it is supported by the wishful thinking and hyperbole of contemporary eulogists. And matches with later conjecture. The people who began the "Thomas Jefferson survives" last words story had no knowledge of the correspondence between Jefferson and Adams.

So because the original conjecture did not have the support of later-discovered corroborative facts, it was "wishful thinking?"

Perhaps it was prescience, or intuition. Even if the story was, at first, pure speculation... the fact that it was later supported by letters between the two ex-presidents puts it squarely in the realm of probability, imo.



In any event, I will believe the charming and spooky tale about Adams and Jefferson until the day I die .... at which time, I will gasp with my last, clutching breath, "Alex Still Lives!"