Are you writing these days . A colleague and i conducted a survey of washington officials. Because everyone is always surveying americans to see what they think of washington, we said, lets survey washington to see what it thinks of america. So we surveyed officials and what i will call members of the policy community, that is the contractors, who often are interchangeable with officials, people who work in think tanks, everyone involved in developing rules and regulations. So i said, we want to see what they thought of americans. In fact, my original title for this book was what the government thinks of the people. Government thinks of the people. But publishers never like my titles, they always say my titles are no good. All right. So at any rate, i sent out so we wanted to find out what officials thought of us ordinary americans. She said, well, thats kind of interesting, but she said, Everybody Knows that ordinary americans are a bunch of idiots. Why do you need to do a survey to f
With . Prof. Ginsberg absolutely. This is a true story and those who live in washington have probably heard versions of the story. I was at a dinner party and sitting next to me was a pretty senior hhs executive, someone whom i have known for a long time, very nice person. And she said to me, well, what are you writing these days . So i said, a colleague and i conducted a survey of washington officials. Because everyone is always surveying americans to see what they think of washington, we said, lets survey washington to see what it thinks of america. So we surveyed officials and what i will call members of the policy community, that is the contractors, who often are interchangeable with officials, people who work in think tanks, everyone involved in developing rules and regulations. So i said, we want to see what they thought of americans. In fact, my original title for this book was what the government thinks of the people. But publishers never like my titles, they always say my titl
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Weekly officer presentation to an officer that has gone beyond and above officer mohamed bay view station. Welcome, good to see you. Mine too. Thank you, chief scott, thank you president elias, good to see you again. Fellow commissioners and our new acquaintance, commissioner henderson. Im from bay view station, i want to thank you for allowing me to speak before you tonight and have the distinction to present an outstanding officer to receive this Police Recognition award. Before i begin, i would like to point out that bay view station has some of the toughest officers. We have many deserving candidates. I first met officer mohamed, when i was lieutenant working at park station. Back then he was assigned to the hardest shift, the midnight watch. Shortly after, he was transferred to baby station. Like a lot of captains were having some staffing challenge and i had my mine and one included the third street corridor. Its not an easy assignment. Ill say that again, its not an easy assignm