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merciful god will extend to you his blessing and protection, within an increasing admiration for your constancy and devotion to your country, and a grateful remembrance of your kind and generous consideration for myself. i bid you an affectionate farewell. revisionist, historians have explained to us that lee's general orders number 9 was disingenuous, and that lee was consciously laying the cornerstone for a false if enduring explanation for confederate defeat. but i ask you to simply listen to those words in the context in which they were written and delivered, and then gauge this eloquent tribute to a defeated army, and a conquered people against the most moving and revered rhetoric in american history. finally, what about lee in 1865 after appomattox. the last aspect of general's greatness this year unfolded after lee returned to richmond as a parole prisoner of war. historian marshall fishwick calls lee's post-war years the greatest period in the life of a great american. a former confederate general agreed that, quote at the close of the war the deportment and conduct of our noble and hon

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it just seems one of those areas that screams for some of the constancy of a high level entity, and official or a group within the interagency structure that will keep a strategic focus. we don't maintain a strategic focus. i would love to hear from you all. i think you have given it to us in different forms, but specific recommendations for where you would see structurally that consistency that we need in the organization and the white house to maintain strategic focus on what is right now being neglected. >> i said it before. it re-creates the structure. it worked. it was not perfect and needed refinement but it belongs. i think it should include somebody that needs to be respected. it is all it is all about personal relationships. the way you get things done in the white house is figure out what the president wants and then you develop the relationships with your counterparts and the agencies. none of this that we have heard about all day today is not doable. it just requires focus leadership, and it needs trust the trust between the person in charge of this component wherever you decide