Gerardo Blanco

“Thomas Jefferson, on the other hand, was feeling the effects of time. “Here a pivot, there a wheel, now a pinion, next a spring will give way,” Jefferson grumbled in a note to Adams. He could no longer walk very far, although he tried to ride two or three hours a day.”
― William K. Klingaman, The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History