Bennie Thompson actually said...

Well, one of the things, we put 22 agencies together and we inherited the culture of some of the legacy agencies who were a little more mature versus the new kids on the block, and so we see the legacy agencies kind of being the thousand-pound gorilla sometimes.

Context

Thompson discusses challenges in consolidating agencies and their differing cultures.

04/25/2013

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