 Until that point, he would help with the preparations if he wanted to do so from home. And then Washington made what I think is one of the worst mistakes in his entire public service career, which was that he allowed the arch-federalist forces in the cabinet and then Alexander Hamilton as well to sort of turn him against Adams. And ultimately, he forced Adams to allow him to have control over the officer corps in a way that Washington himself would have never permitted when he was president.