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Climate change? Don't hold your breath
2013-02-05 17:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: When I served in the White House, I convinced a speech writer to insert a paragraph in favor of a policy I championed into President Carter's forthcoming speech. I was going (as many had before me) to use this paragraph to urge the relevant agencies to proceed, on the ground that, "the president stated... " I was stopped by a new staff director who, during the fourth year of the Carter administration, introduced a "revolutionary" idea: that speeches should be checked against policy. That is, that...
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