The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.
“Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.”
“If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.”