B. U. G. S.

Once again, let us look at an overwhelming fact:

George Washington was not bright.

People who know they are not all that bright on an IQ test react in one of two ways:

1) They hire people who are even less IQ bright to make themselves feel good;

or

2) They hire very, very smart people to do what they know they can’t do.

I have wondered why people react in the 1) way.

If you are a boxing promoter, you hire people who could beat the hell out of you.

Any boxing promoter who only hires people he can whip in a fistfight would be sent to a rest home.

Washington hired people who could beat the hell out of him when it came to smarts.

Now I get to one of the absolutely unique things in American history.

Anybody with an understanding of human beings, which definitely does not include historians, would assume that a man who knew he was not bright would get himself a group of underlings were even less bright.

When Washington became president he had a Cabinet consisting of, I believe, four men.

I forget the other one, but three of them were Postmaster General Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson.

You cannot say that GW took on three men who were “intelligent.”

They were not just intelligent, they were damned near transcendental.

Nobody has EVER gotten three giant geniuses at one table that is anywhere near Washington’s first Cabinet.

You know, Old Dumb George.

George wasn’t all that bright.

So he HIRED genius.

Which, in my definition of the word, was genius squared.