The advantage[s] of keeping one’s eye on the ball.
According to the Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, the Lincoln cabinet, at the beginning anyway, was anything but unified; discussions went on without order or system, notes Welles, ‘but in the summing up and conclusions the President, who was a patient listener and learner, concentrated results, and often determined questions adverse to the Secretary of State, regarding him and his opinions, as he did those of his other advisers, for what they were worth and generally no more.’
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