This soft-spoken elderly couple may be two of just a handful of people who are not surprised by her nomination as John McCain's choice for vice president of the United States.
John Quincy Adams after having served as President of the United States was asked by people from his district if it would be beneath the dignity of a former President to serve in the House of Representatives.
John McCain is working to hold on to as many of those states as he can and also come from behind in the big state of Pennsylvania.
And the rising tide of anti-war sentiment threatens to submerge a slew of Republican senators in Democratic-leaning states, such as Susan Collins (Maine), John Sununu (New Hampshire), Norm Coleman (Minnesota) and Gordon Smith (Oregon).
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From the United States came Senators John McCain and Mark Udall, as well as such media luminaries as Gideon Rose of Foreign Affairs, Steve Clemons of the Atlantic, David Sanger of the New York Times, and former CNN White House correspondent Kathleen Koch.
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In 1789, John Adams was sworn in as the first vice president of the United States.
But the United States hit back to level the tie as big-serving John Isner fired nine aces in a straight-set 6-3 6-2 7-5 win over Gilles Simon.
Born a bastard in Wales and raised in a workhouse there, he denied his humble beginnings, changed his name from John Rowlands to Henry Morton Stanley and claimed the United States as his birthplace.
Meanwhile, Novak Djokovic gave Serbia the perfect start to the Davis Cup quarterfinal against the United States as the world's No. 1 men's player defeated John Isner in Friday's opening rubber in Idaho.
He was sitting side-by-side with fellow House Republican ideologues John Boehner and Eric Cantor as they risked the full faith and credit of the United States, regardless of what it would mean for the middle class, jobs and women's rights.
Or will he do it more disingenuously, as former UN Ambassador John Bolton speculated in the Wall Street Journal last week, by having the United States abstain from an approving vote by the United Nations Security Council.
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