I wrote a spur of the moment comment on Krugman's blog yesterday in response to his brief post on the pay cut for federal employees. I mentioned a story I distantly remembered about how Bill Clinton and Al Gore had vowed not to use the term "bureaucrats" when referring to federal workers, in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing because of the pejorative nature of the term.
The comment got a lot of rec's so I figured I should do a little digging to see if I remembered correctly, lest I embarrass the Old Grey Lady with a bad source. According to this short article in the LA Times, I had remembered correctly. Since I had written in the context of the federal pay freeze (I agree that it's a gimmick), I thought I'd dig a little deeper into President Obama's use of the word.
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