Now Washington was almost if not quite the most actual of modern statesmen.

All his arrangements at a given moment were directed at the needs and likelihood of the moment, and in 1914 he would have planned as 1914 demanded.

He would have steered his ship by the wind that blew then and not by the wind that had blown and vanished one hundred and twenty years before.
Some one has remarked that, while Washington achieved a great victory in the ratification of the Jay Treaty, that event broke up the Federalist Party.

That is probably inexact, but the break-up of the Federalist Party was taking place during the last years of Washington's second administration.

The changes in Washington's Cabinet were most significant, especially as they nearly all meant the change from a more important to a less important Secretary.