The President was very open and encouraging of his senior staff and cabinet to disagree with the way he was going.

布什总统非常开明,经常会鼓励他身边的同事和内阁,对他选择的道路提出不同意见。

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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。

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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。

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