Text George Washington was six feet tall, with (26) shoulders, a big nose, reddish hair that was now grey and that (27) of power and authority large men often (28) . He had a wonderful quality of silence (29) in the noisy Constitutional Conventtion at Philadelphia in 1787 had (30) an eloquence of (31) . He was the unlikely (32) the people were seeking: a citizen-soldier, a steady, rocklike, responsible man. He was not a (33) There have been (34) soldiers, more capable executives, more creative statesmen. (35) he had been once, and was now again, pre-eminently the (36) man in the right place (37) the right time. He had (38) the weight of the Revolution on his shoulders, had torn victory out of defeat because he had never known when he was (39) . He could never give in, yet he was no statue. (40) passions strung on a hair trigger. When (41) that the painter Gilbert Stuart had seen signs of a fierce temper controlled only with difficulty, Washington said soberly, "He is right." He was too honest to evade anything. He was the good soldier who never (42) his country’s call. Like several later generals, he would bring to the presidential (43) more prestige than he found in it; (44) some, he would leave the office greater than he had found it, and (45) an authority that could be handed down to those who came after him.