He worried that eliminating taxes on dividends would benefit only "top-rate people," asking his advisers, "Didn't we already give them a break at the top?"

At that point, the two principals asked their advisers to arrange a meeting to work out a truce.

Mr. Robinson was said to have thought that the information-gathering effort had ended, and asked his senior advisers if they knew anything about it.

"We're going to ask our legal advisers to tell us how to proceed as a result of the ruling," he added.

In several conversations, he asked his advisers whether Mr. Lundine could win if he did not run.

He asked his advisers to find means of having Diệm gag her.

The story continues with King Herod asking his advisers about ancient prophesies describing the birth of such a child.

Ask your advisers how best to go about this.

He asks his advisers how Vashti should be punished for her disobedience.

Herod asks his advisers where the Messiah was to be born.