Actually it is out of “Rules for Radicals”.
“The organizer goes with the action. His approach must be free, open-ended, curious, sensitive to any opportunities, any handles to grab on to, even though they involve other issues than those he may have in mind at that particular time. The organizer should never feel lost because he has no plot, no timetable or definite points of reference. A great pragmatist, Abraham Lincoln, told his secretary in the month the war began:
‘My policy is to have no policy.’” p165-166
Lincoln’s general’s had a strategy. More likely, he meant what Reagan said, “We win, they lose”. You’re giving Mr. “not present” way too much credit. After he’s out of office, he needs to write his own book. He should name it “The Art of Incompetence”. All the pages should be left blank.