“Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off.'”
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Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.
Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3, 000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.
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.
In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.