 turned out to be very consequential and turned out to be a bit of a disaster for adam's so the reason he did it is because he thought that that would provide a continuity to government that uh... that the country would benefit from yeah i mean i think he thought that it would be beneficial that it would be helpful he didn't have any reason to think that they were bad secretaries and it turns out that washington really didn't think very highly of them but didn't tell adam that which i think was a mistake