 He was really the only national figure other than Benjamin Franklin, but Benjamin Franklin was very old and in poor health, and everyone understood he was not going to be president. And Washington was the only person that could really unify the states and bring them together and be trusted with that amount of authority because he had already done so and then given it back. And so I think that one he definitely kind of had to be pushed into, even though he knew he had to have that role.