And, he promised, he will curtail his "midnight cabinet," all-night karaoke-bar-style sessions with his cronies that one aide said sometimes produced presidential decrees that had to be quickly countermanded in the light of day.
These orders were countermanded in favor of strikes from Admiral Marc Mitscher's aircraft carriers, but as a contingency the battleships together with seven cruisers and twenty one destroyers were sent to interdict the Japanese force before it could reach the vulnerable transports and landing craft.
All entries made in longhand with black ink, except for an occasional "Countermanded" scrawled in red ink.
At CSFB, Quattrone's e-mail was countermanded twice in the next two days by company lawyers.
They may be right to worry that American politicians are more partisan and less responsive than in decades past, that interest groups have succeeded in countermanding majority will in many instances, or that each of the parties is out of step on some issues.
The original decision to let her leave Evin prison in Tehran, where she has been held with her fiancé and another friend since being arrested on the Iraq border in July last year, was countermanded by Mr Dolatabadi on Friday night.
The Ohio senator, characterized by a Cincinnati newspaper as a man "rich in epithets and profligate in furious vituperation," had famously attributed the president's views on race to "one born of poor white trash and educated in a slave State" after Lincoln had countermanded John Fremont's August 1861 order emancipating the slaves in Missouri.
In the telegram, Lincoln countermanded McClellan, who wanted 40,000 troops under General Irvin McDowell sent south from Northern Virginia by ship.
In 1928, Winston Churchill, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, successfully urged the Cabinet to make the rule self-perpetuating and hence it was in force unless specifically countermanded.
The Supreme Allied Commander (SACEUR, Wesley Clarkk, was in favor of blocking the runway against Russian reinforcements, but the leading British military officer in place there, Michael Jackson, countermanded Clarke, and a potentially dangerous East-West confrontation was avoided.
But Mr. Mitterrand countermanded him, saying that Britain had supported France in two world wars and that it was France's duty to help Britain.
