“I learned a great lesson about government when we did the census in 1970. And that is that the government is not a very good communicator. That the government doesn't do a good job of getting things across. So I've been trying all my career to do a better job.”
Haley Barbour reflects on the government's communication failures and his efforts to improve it throughout his career.
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