Because not only the NSA homeland security, the governors, members of congress, cabinet officers.

因为不仅仅国家安全顾问,国土安全，政府官员，国会议员，内阁官员都想见总统。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

One of the jobs of a White House Chief of Staff is to settle disputes among cabinet members and offcials, and it's also one of the toughest jobs.

白宫办公厅主任的,工作之一是解决争端,在内阁成员和其他官员间进行调解，这也是最辛苦的工作之一。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

All officials from the chancelleries that he had created and all of the officers were obliged to attend this torture scene as a way of warning them that, "You'd better not mess around."

他所有的内阁大臣和官员们,都被迫出席拷打的场面,这么做是以儆效尤,"你们最好别到处惹是生非"

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So I took it as my role not to keep decisions away from him, but if they were important enough, to make sure that he had, he, the president, not a compromise, he the president had the oppotunity to make decisions among his cabinet officers, and he did.

所以我的作用是,让决定权掌握在他手上，如果事情非常重要，确保布什总统，不是那个折中意见，是总统,有机会在内阁官员的意见中,作自己的决定，他也是这么做的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

So the instinct of many cabinet officers and other senior officials is "Boy, when we take this to the president, let's see if we can reach some sort of 4 compromise, you know, you say 2, I say 4, let's just go tell the president 3 that we've agreed on 3."

所以许多内阁官员,还有其他高层的领导人的本能都是，我们把这个给总统处理之前，先看看我们能不能各自让步,比如你说2，我说，我们就告诉总统,我们都同意“

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选