Now, I would also draw your attention to Rabbi Sacks' Life-Changing Idea #38 in his second new 2020 book: "If you seek to learn, grow, pursue truth, and find freedom, seek places that welcome argument and respect dissenting views" (page 213). I hope you will welcome argument and respect dissenting views among your cabinet members (after you have appointed them).
Now, it strikes me that Rabbi Sacks' Life-Changing Idea #38 is closely related to his Life-Changing Idea #13: "When you learn to listen to views different from your own, realizing that they are not threatening but enlarging, then you have discovered the life-changing idea of argument for the sake of Heaven" (page 69). But perhaps you have already discovered this.
In any event, in my estimate, Rabbi Sacks in his second new 2020 book about fifty-six life-changing ideas in Judaism has discovered within the word of God for Jews for all time, the word of God for all monotheistic believers for this time - the time of your Presidency in the United States of America.
Now, if you would like to discover just how broad and deep the problems in contemporary American society today are, then I would urge you to also read Rabbi Sacks' first new 2020 book, Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times. Yes, your main task is to restore the common good in American society today. As you know, the common good is a key value in Roman Catholic social teaching.
For further discussion of Rabbi Sacks' first new 2020 book, see my online 8,400-word review essay "Pope Francis' 2020 Encyclical, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks' [First] 2020 Book, and Walter J. Ong's Thought" that is available through the University of Minnesota's digital conservancy:
http://hdl.handle.net/11299/216934
For a reader-friendly account of Ong's philosophical thought, see my lengthy OEN article "Walter J. Ong's Philosophical Thought" (dated September 20, 2020):
In conclusion, for the common good of all Americans today, you need to work on effectively countering the Covid-19 pandemic, as you have pledged to do.
For the common good of all Americans today, you should also work tirelessly on rebuilding the economy.
For the common good of all Americans today, you should also work on strengthening the Affordable Health Care Act (also known as Obama-care).
For the common-good of all Americans today, you should work on strengthening the Social Security systems.
For the common good of all Americans today, you should work of reforming our legal justice system, especially on sentencing reform.
For the common good not only of all Americans today, but also of all people around the world today, you should work on climate change - as Pope Francis urged people of good will to do in his 2015 eco-encyclical.
But enough! I trust that you already are well aware of these and other challenges the country faces as you prepare to be the next President of the United States.
Thank you for your time and attention. May God bless you, and may God bless America.
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