True except for one small detail....It was Adams that was the warhawk and Jefferson peacenik if you check the records of their presidential election platform.
Jefferson did not want to build a navy but Adams did.
Adams was hated for taxing the american people still indebted after the revolutionary war and with continuing skirmishes with the British and the war of 1812 only a few years away. Adams was also hated for the Aliens and Sedition Acts that he passed.
But let it be known that when push came to shove during the Jeffersonian Presidency it was Jefferson using the Navy that Adams had built to defend the Great Lakes in 1812 and defend our Navy and Merchant Fleet in the Mediterranean.
Unfortunately, our warhawk President Bush created no such military buildup of our armed forces for this war or for a future war under the next presidency, infact, president bush has consumed our resources and left us undermanned, under-armed and underfunded for the next potential conflict. But does it look like this ranch hand cowboy reads....nope.