One Million COVID Deaths, Who is Accountable? (with Trump Coronavirus Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx)
In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt
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Are You a Political Appointee or a Civil Service Member?
I think not everybody knows the difference between a political appointee and a career member of a government service. I knew that if i went into that white house with what i knew of its chaos and complexity, that in order to work in that space, that i would be perceived as part of the system. If you want to really make government work and work consistently on big programmes, you have to be non political. And so i hav prided myself in being non political. But i also knew how this white house, particularly the president, was viewed. So there, there you are. You were actually, i in africa,. working in africa, when you got the call and
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