And that would often actually the right answer to take, is to not just compromise among your advisers, but use your own principles to make a decision.

而且通常情况,他的观点是对的，并不是向智囊团的意见妥协，而是根据自己的原则做决定。

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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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