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February 20, 2008 at 8:05 am
As a former HUD staffer, we were quite amused to read this in Al Kamen’s column today:
Yes, it’s the beautifully designed photo homage to one of our nation’s leaders, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson. The photo exhibit is boldly and proudly displayed in the lobby of HUD’s headquarters building, itself a dreadful gray relic of Great Society architecture.
Tour groups need not even go through the inviting metal detectors to admire 20 large, color photographs of the secretary, each about 2 feet by 3 feet. No fewer than five of them feature Jackson with President Bush– in the Rose Garden, in the Oval Office, chatting together, coming down the steps at the Capitol.
Our memory is a bit hazy from our days working in the HUD building — ten floors of basement — but surely we would have remembered any photo showing this great American, Sam Pierce, in his ever-lasting image:
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