that man come in part because it wasn't a particularly good or rader but he was a great listener.you could see this when he was a general. before every battle you would pull together all its officers and listen to all of them about how the battle should take place, what should we do, how should we handle crossing the delaware, how should we handle yorktown, how should we handle a brandywine? then he would draw those ideas together, compromise, worked out and from that, a plan would develop. we know how he was as president. the invented the cabinet. the cabinet is no where in the constitution but the idea of calling his leaders together, remember doris kerns goodwin love to talk about lincoln having the team of rivals in his cabinet. nothing compared to washington. washington and jefferson and hamilton, john adams as vice president, talk about a team of rivals there was a real team of rivals and he would listen to the mall, he would listen to all their ideas, they could write memos and from those he would work out an overall plan. they all recognize he had great wisdom if not, he w