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His writing, how fast he was producing the work. He knocked out the first rough draft of a farewell to arms, two weeks after arriving in key west. He said if you really want to write, start with one true sentence. For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Key west is also where president harry truman sought refuge from washington. Resident truman regarded the big white house as the great white jail. He felt he was constantly under everyones i and so by coming to key west, he could come with his closest staff, let down his hair sometimes some of the staff would let their beards grow for a couple of days. They certainly at times used offcolor stories. He certainly could have a glass of bourbon and visit back and forth without any scrutiny from the press. A Sportswear Company sent a case of hawaiian shirts to the president. With the thought that if the presi
Why despite the reform activities in the process are taking longer in fiscal year 2015 is an average of 95 days to process the secret clearance and 179 days for the secret clearance. In 2016, it took an average of 166 days to process and 246 for the topsecret clearance. Thats quite a job in the timeline it takes to get there. More than a decade ago that processes were transferred from the department of defense and now there is talk of transferring the process back to the department of defense. We also have the newly created the opm and the dod have a shared responsibility to make sure we stop moving the organizational boxes around as we transition, we need to talk about the efficiency and make sure at the end of the day we are protecting and securing the United States of america. Theres a tremendous amount of people that are working on these issues. We will have additional hearings and discuss that. I personally believe and i would like to draw this out, attracting and retaining the pr
Why despite the reform activities in the process are taking longer in fiscal year 2015 is an average of 95 days to process the secret clearance and 179 days for the secret clearance. In 2016, it took an average of 166 days to process and 246 for the topsecret clearance. Thats quite a job in the timeline it takes to get there. More than a decade ago that processes were transferred from the department of defense and now there is talk of transferring the process back to the department of defense. We also have the newly created the opm and the dod have a shared responsibility to make sure we stop moving the organizational boxes around as we transition, we need to talk about the efficiency and make sure at the end of the day we are protecting and securing the United States of america. Theres a tremendous amount of people that are working on these issues. We will have additional hearings and discuss that. I personally believe and i would like to draw this out, attracting and retaining the pr
Efficiency of federal employee background checks. The Oversight Reform Committee questioned office and management of budget officials to protect federal employees personal information. This hearing is about 2. 5 hours. Committee on oversight government reform will come to order and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Appreciate you all being here. We have very important hearing. We have a number of members that im sure will be here, but it will be late. There is the National Prayer breakfast and getting across town at this point of the day is a difficult task. Nevertheless, glad to have you here and look forward to this important hearing. Two years ago, the office of Personnel Management suffered one of the most damaging data breaches in the history of the federal government. This went on for some time and we still, there are still Additional Details that need to be learned. But the counterintelligence value of the data that was stolen will last