"1: Keep your cards close to your vest. 2: Avoid empty rhetoric. 3: Court the opposition media. 4: Pick Cabinet members who have skills and knowledge you lack. 5: Use your Cabinet to bring diversity into your administration. 6: Use your Cabinet appointments to unite your party behind you. 7: Get any resentment or bitterness off your chest in the first draft of your inaugural address -- then cut it all out. 8: Use your inaugural address to set the tone for your presidency."And the transition itself? A Chicago Tribune reporter, Patrick T. Reardon, asked Holzer and distinguished Civil War historian James McPherson what lessons they thought Obama should take from President-elect Lincoln's transition strategy. They agreed on eight points:
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