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Which Presidents Were Vandals?

  • July 18, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Before either one became president, Founding Fathers John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were good friends. In 1786, Jefferson visited Adams in England, where they toured William Shakespeare’s childhood home — and chipped off a piece of the playwright’s chair as a souvenir!

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