james blaine identifies himself. william allison of of iowa and james garfield is the three people who could take that stevens place in blaine sees himself. he's like, no, that's me. i, i want to be front and center. it's all about me. and that'll come up later. but he cuts this deal with garfield and basically he gives garfield the just these ransoms of committee power because all garfield wants to do is just to study and solve public problems. whereas he wants to let james blaine take the lead of marshaling the house and keeping legislation flowing so he garfield over the course of the reconstruction, just great pragmatic figure who also, i'd argue, one of the most interesting people that time. and he comes of a very famous supreme court lawyer. he does all of this writing and mathematical work on the side, but he becomes defined as somebody who, in the interest of keeping our institutions functioning, of continuing to hold republican power over the house, he becomes somebody who has the reputation of being a moder