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On the 18th day of his new job as President Bush's director of homeland security, former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge was deep in the thickets of an unexpected national emergency. Someone, or some group, was spreading one of the world's deadliest bioweapons through the U.S. mail, and a White House reporter was asking Ridge to do something he clearly had not prepared for.
"Governor ... chances are that the person or persons who did this would be inclined to follow every briefing, every statement. What would your message be to the person or persons who sent this stuff?" Ridge, an ex-Marine and a former Congressman, was momentarily silent. He was being asked to speak ...