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"Carter's administration was plagued by an unusual problem. He lived up to a campaign promise to turn his back on the Washington Bureaucracy. To carry it out, he imported his advisers from Georgia. In most cases, they were perfectly fine people. They just weren't tutored in how to get things done in Washington. They learned the hard way that you don't succeed in the labyrinth of Capitol politics without making a lot of compromises with the entrenched apparatus."
Why is everyone so hard on Obama? Hell, I knew that even though he gave great speech in '04 at the Democratic Convention and he was a promise of hope for the people that would hit that nasty wall called the "entrenched apparatus" that exists in the sewer called Washington DC.
Anyway, I love Cronkite's book. The man had a lot of class.
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