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I have a dirty little secret to tell. On the night of February 4, 1997, when President Bill Clinton was to give his State of the Union address and the judge in the O.J. Simpson civil case was to read the jury’s verdict, I surfed the channels to find a station that was covering the latter story rather than the speech.
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Campbell, C. (2002). The Vicious Circle of the Constricting State as Viewed through the Failure of Executive Leadership in Anglo-American Democracies. In: Flynn, P., Hodgkinson, V.A. (eds) Measuring the Impact of the Nonprofit Sector. Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0533-4_5
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