my first ever political boss was when i was an intern in college and worked for senator harold baker who which a senator for tennessee. to be ronald reagan's chief of staff. an ambassador to japan under george h.w. bush. and, baker had a thing that said, always remember that the other fellow might be right. he was from a little country town north of knoxville. that was his way of saying, i will work my hardest to remember i need to walk into it with the realization that i may not have this exactly right. particularly within our own team and staff was, okay, that is where we are. that will be the administration's position. i learned real quickly that did not get us to the best answer. realizing i may not always be right is moving my chair from the head of the table when we had our senior staff meeting to the middle of the table. so that i could make certain that my voice did not cut off the discussion. if our answer was the answer i walked in the door with, it would not be as good as all of us could walk out of the door with. >> that is true. >> you have a couple of sections in your b

my first ever political boss was when i was an intern in college and worked for senator harold baker who which a senator for tennessee. to be ronald reagan's chief of staff. an ambassador to japan under george h.w. bush. and, baker had a thing that said, always remember that the other fellow might be right. he was from a little country town north of knoxville. that was his way of saying, i will work my hardest to remember i need to walk into it with the realization that i may not have this exactly right. particularly within our own team and staff was, okay, that is where we are. that will be the administration's position. i learned real quickly that did not get us to the best answer. realizing i may not always be right is moving my chair from the head of the table when we had our senior staff meeting to the middle of the table. so that i could make certain that my voice did not cut off the discussion. if our answer was the answer i walked in the door with, it would not be as good as all of us could walk out of the door with. >> that is true. >> you have a couple of sections in your b

my first ever political boss was when i was an intern in college and worked for senator harold baker who which a senator for tennessee. to be ronald reagan's chief of staff. an ambassador to japan under george h.w. bush. and, baker had a thing that said, always remember that the other fellow might be right. he was from a little country town north of knoxville. that was his way of saying, i will work my hardest to remember i need to walk into it with the realization that i may not have this exactly right. particularly within our own team and staff was, okay, that is where we are. that will be the administration's position. i learned real quickly that did not get us to the best answer. realizing i may not always be right is moving my chair from the head of the table when we had our senior staff meeting to the middle of the table. so that i could make certain that my voice did not cut off the discussion. if our answer was the answer i walked in the door with, it would not be as good as all of us could walk out of the door with. >> that is true. >> you have a couple of sections in your b