Over the years, it has become easy to forget that hard edge and the once bad times that nearly destroyed a president. Lincoln’s Cabinet was no team. His rivals proved to be uneven as subordinates. Some were capable despite their personal disloyalty, yet others were simply disastrous.
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Lincoln was a political genius, but his model for Cabinet-building should stand more as a cautionary tale than as a leadership manual.
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