Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.

Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.

See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.

So I think we'll see the coalition forces being able to pare down,

Don't begin to think you're the President. You're not. The Constitution provides for only one.