Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.
If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
Being Vice President is difficult. Don't make it tougher.
Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.
The implication that there was something wrong with the war plan is amusing.
Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.