i was president, but all i got was this t-shirt

[Guest guest]

U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman told the New York Times

Magazine that U.S. President Bush in January hadn't heard of the

White House Office on Environmental Quality, the executive branch

office responsible for enforcing the National Environmental Policy

Act and coordinating the environmental policies of federal agencies.

Whitman said that when Bush offered her the EPA job, he told her that

she alone would be setting the administration's environmental

policies. Whitman said, ''I asked him what the role for the Council

on Environmental Quality would be, and he said: 'I don't even know

what that is. I want you to be the environmental person.''' No word

on whether Bush has since heard of the CEQ.

 

straight to the source: New York Times Magazine, Gregg Easterbrook,

19 Aug 2001

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