If you are in PR or related businesses, it is excellent marketing to write free lance columns for the Globe and other papers.   (And say about him what you will, The Trumpster is a great source of ideas for columns!)  Former senior PR and other staffers for Mulroney, Chretien, Martin and Harper have all written free lance pieces in the Globe in recent months.

In the unlikely event this column comes to general Kelly's attention, he will regard it as basic advice of which he is already fully aware.

And he is probably already laying the groundwork on 3 of the 4 pieces of advice Peter lays out here.

The one thing he will not and should not follow is to place unconditional trust in the bureaucracy.  

The US system has far more discretionary political appointments than ours, it is far more polarized, contributions by bureaucrats to the parties run over 9 to 1 for the Democrats, there is 1 leak per day thus far in Trump's term, and the civil service is neither civil nor serving Trump.