It was the job of everyone else, staff and cabinet included, to figure out what to do about it.
Lincoln's eventual cabinet would include all of his main rivals for the Republican nomination.
Typically, the Cabinet includes only one senator: the leader of the government in the Senate.
His cabinet includes bankers, diplomats and business executives, but not a single politician.
The Cabinet may include non-elected members appointed by the President.
Lincoln's cabinet included virtually every one of his defeated rivals for the Republican presidential nomination.
For instance, for the first time in the postwar era, the Cabinet includes a retired general.
This new cabinet did not include any personality of the Three Glorious, something the press immediately highlighted.
But the new Cabinet did not include names of equal prominence to signal a turn in a new direction.
The cabinet did not include any natively anglophone member.