Of course, great is relative and JFK was probably average. But Washington and his wife were slave owners, and he did sign the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 and used it for the next five years to hire bounty hunters to track down and capture his housemaid. She had escaped to New Hampshire, to a town of freed and escaped blacks, where she married a freed black man. She eluded capture for five years and when George died in 1799, she stopped being hunted. It is a hard choice of which is worse: playing king to constantly sleep around with women or signing a federal law and the using it to track down your escaped slave instead of letting her go and living a free life her husband. JFK treated women like property; for George they actually were property.