The number-one difference between me and some of those who left the administration on less-than-good terms was that I never thought I was a stand-in for the president. They sometimes did. As a member of the president’s cabinet, I conducted myself the same way I wanted my cabinet to treat me when I was governor. I wanted them to be creative. I wanted them to remember that they served the people. And I wanted them to challenge me if they ever thought I was going in a direction they disagreed with.
