Cox ran the office with the aplomb of a law professor, trusting his team and stoking debate, ultimately falling back on what he called “Lincoln’s Rule”: Everyone on staff got one vote, but his vote counted more than everyone else’s combined. This was to protect against an important generational and philosophical divide he had identified: his young, ambitious team had mostly come of age amid the turmoil of the 1960s, and were naturally more distrustful of power and institutions.
