http://transition2008.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/ready-on-day-one/ The IBM Center for The Business of Government Weblog Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:51:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU http://transition2008.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/ready-on-day-one/#comment-308 Norman M. Macdonald Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:21:10 +0000 http://transition2008.wordpress.com/?p=104#comment-308 Nine million dollars that's enough to cover moving,travel and maybe Metro fare. I will quote Robert Burns (in 21st Century English) " the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray and leave pain for promised joy". On the other hand collecting solid information will help if you do what you have to do, with what you have,where you are. This transition has many of the dynamics of the one of 1932/33. Washington legend has it that FDR created the New Deal with a crew of folks at night around the White House kitchen table. People who had the needed information. Also there is a rumor that they used Norman Thomas's 1932 platform as a part of the information. Nine million dollars that’s enough to cover moving,travel and maybe Metro fare. I will quote Robert Burns (in 21st Century English) ” the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray and leave pain for promised joy”. On the other hand collecting solid information will help if you do what you have to do, with what you have,where you are. This transition has many of the dynamics of the one of 1932/33. Washington legend has it that FDR created the New Deal with a crew of folks at night around the White House kitchen table. People who had the needed information. Also there is a rumor that they used Norman Thomas’s 1932 platform as a part of the information.

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