During the American Civil War President Abraham Lincoln once found himself wanting to please a politician so he issued a command to transfer certain Union Army regiments When the secretary of war Edwin Stanton received the order he refused to carry it out He said that the president was a fool Lincoln was told what Stanton had said and he replied ldquo If Stanton said I rsquo m a fool then I must be for he is nearly always right I rsquo ll see for myself rdquo As the two men talked the president quickly realized that his decision was
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