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Soft corps: the recent, sad history of the Army Corps of Engineers.(HURRICANE KATRINA)
IN the first year of his presidency, Jimmy Carter went to war with Congress over $239 million worth of funding for 19 public-works projects--most of them involving the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Carter rarely found himself on the right side of a policy issue, but as a trained engineer he could see through the Corps' specious methods of analysis. The waste and fraud angered him. Once, as governor of Georgia, he had described a Corps study as follows: "It became obvious to me that none of the [Corps'] claims was true. The report was primarily promotional literature supporting construction."
All of the various dams and water projects on Carter's "hit list" ...
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