While Adams laid out a rather impressive goals for his administration (really just a continuation of Monroe's last address) he was actually able to accomplish little, hindered by ineffective politics on his own end and an unusually combative political opposition. He did succeed in continuing to expand internal improvements, reduce the national debt, and won congressional approval to send delegates to the Panama Congress (although really a Jacksonian strategic victory). Perhaps his biggest achievement was in native policy where he opposed the state of Georgia's expulsion of the Creek along with his Secretary of War James Barbour, although ultimately he failed in this regard the stand was nonetheless noteworthy. There are certain historians who see John Quincy Adams as a sort of Almost Great president based on his lofty goals but the results aren't particularly pronounced.