He does his own thinking, untouched by other men's ideas.

He receives nothing from the outside.

His domestic life is spent with his own, nobody else, except House occasionally.

His contact with his own Cabinet is a business man's contact with his business associates and kind--at his office.
He declined to see Cameron Forbes[41] on his return from the Philippines.
The sadness of this mistake! Another result is--the President doesn't hear the frank truth about the men about him.

He gives nobody a chance to tell him.