Dissensions among themselves and hardly ever agreeing on any important question, brings to view the great responsibility of the President and the fact that in all the important matters he was dependent upon his own judgment.
Dodge discusses the internal conflicts within the Cabinet and the President's reliance on his own judgment in critical matters.
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