ON THE RECORD
“I have never seen a government program administered less sympathetically. It’s as if you appointed the Marlboro man as surgeon general or Gandhi as head of the Pentagon.”
--Rep. Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat, commenting on the administration of Resolution Thrift Corp., which is charged with disposing of assets of thrifts taken over by the government.
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