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“WATCH THOSE BREAD CRUMBS — BREAD COSTS MONEY”
Responding to the testimony of Admiral Hyman Rickover that the Department of Defense contracts cost taxpayers an additional two billion dollars by using an outmoded system, Herblock characterized a contractor as a greedy diner throwing away food he did not intend to eat. In contrast, a bureaucrat points an angry finger at a lean child who drops a few crumbs from a slice of plain bread. The Nixon administration attacked Johnson’s War on Poverty programs, reducing benefits and eliminating some community-led efforts.
“Watch Those Bread Crumbs—Bread Costs Money,” 1969. Published in the Washington Post, February 2, 1969. |