 You should read the book Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Because that's what Lincoln did. Lincoln sought the best people. He didn't seek somebody because of their race or their gender or their sex or whatever other cause we seem to do today. Abraham Lincoln sought out the very best people he could find. And that's why he always wanted to be the dumbest guy in the room. He rarely was, but that's what he wanted to be.