If you had to pick one you would probably have to pick George Washington – he's probably the most indispensable of the founders - but that it's the collective achievement of the founding generation that really made it distinctive and so successful - that it's the fact that there are a diverse group of personalities, ideologies, and temperaments that are colliding and colluding in the late 18th century and setting up a kind of version of checks and balances within the revolutionary generation. Well, when I wrote the Jefferson book I would go on a kind of book tour and speak to large audiences and they would often ask met question, you know, why was Jefferson greater, who was the greatest in the kind of Mohammed Ali question, who was the greatest – and I found myself answering them to say, it's not any one of them that's the greatest.
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