Washington not only fit the bill physically, he was also almost perfect psychologically, so comfortable with his superiority that he felt no need to explain himself. {As a young man during the French and Indian war he had been more outspoken, but he learned from experience to allow his sheer presence to speak for itself.} While less confident men blathered on, he remained silent, thereby making himself a vessel into which admirers for their fondest convictions, becoming a kind of receptacle for diverse aspirations that magically came together in one man.
( Joseph J. Ellis )
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