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Older than her years. And perhaps a little wiser. Or was it more cynical? She hoped not and wondered why it was suddenly difficult to tell the two apart.
“I can tell you one thing, Secretary Adams. From my experience, the greater the silence, the greater the goal.”
Competence was replaced by blind loyalty as the determining factor for employment by an increasingly deranged administration.
“Israel,” they all said at once. It was the go-to answer whenever there was an assassination.
One horrible thing did not wipe out a lifetime of devotion.
They’d scored a victory over the despot, deposing him in a fair election. But the victory was fragile. Still, her job wasn’t to convince the electorate. Her job was to make sure they got to the next election.
