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"Obama’s C.D.C. Director, Wielding a Big Broom" [1]

"ATLANTA -- No federal health agency changed more during the Bush administration than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It got new buildings, new managers and an entirely new operating structure.

A year into the Obama administration, only the new buildings remain. Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the agency’s director since June, has quietly scrapped nearly all the administrative changes that the previous director, Dr. Julie L. Gerberding, spent much of her six-year tenure conceiving and carrying out. "

Gardiner Harris reports for the New York Times March 15, 2010.
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Source: NYTimes [2], 03/17/2010
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/obama%E2%80%99s-cdc-director-wielding-a-big-broom [2] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/health/16prof.html [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/government [4] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [5] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81