it even had a name. it was spokes of the wheel. each person was a spoke going in to the president. everyone since then has abandoned it because it created a factionalized white house that was more like lord of the flies. dan, i talked to a number of former chiefs of staffs, republicans and democrats, from recent administrations who have all said, you need to kind of everybody needs to know what their leans aanes are, what the portfolios are. you can t have various people who have the president s ear. everybody needs to stay in their lane. certainly there are management techniques of having conflicting groups around you so that you are getting different kinds of advice so that everything isn t hom oj niezed. there is value in that. one of the things that some of the people who were preparing the transition saw was that donald trump as a candidate and as a businessman has a particular style.