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Article: A FORMER GOVERNOR'S LAMENT.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- June 17, 2001
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Byline: GAIL COLLINS Syndicated columnist
Remember back when governors were trendy?
Christie Whitman left New Jersey to put a moderate Republican face on the Environmental Protection Agency. Two humiliating rebuffs from the White House later, she's vanished. Twenty years from now, a schlock news show will open up a mysterious vault under the Executive Office Building and discover Whitman, typing memos hopefully.
Tommy Thompson was going to turn the lumbering Department of Health and Human Services into an innovative 21st-century service center for the upwardly mobile poor - not a safety net, but a trampoline!
But lately, he's been ...