He met with the principal members every morning, held a foreign policy meeting often for hours every Friday morning, invited and listened to disputes, sometimes over the most intricate details of policy.

• 他每天上午同主要顾问们碰头，每星期五上午则专开几小时讨论外交政策的会，他欢迎并乐于倾听政策上的分歧意见，有时是关于一些极为错综复杂的具体问题的意见。