There is an awards ceremony to celebrate people who had done extraordinary things in government. Every year the Sammies - as Max called them, in honor of his original patron - attracted a few more celebrities and a bit more media attention. And every year the list of achievements was mmd-blowing. A guy in the Energy Department (Frazer Lockhart) organized the first successful cleanup of a nuclear weapons factory, in Rocky Flats, Colorado, and had brought it in sixty years early and $30 billion under budget. A woman at the Federal Trade Commission (Eileen Harrington) had built the Do Not Call Registry, which spared the entire country from trillions of irritating sales pitches. A National Institutes of Health researcher (Steven Rosenberg) had pioneered immunotherapy, which had successfully treated previously Incurable cancers. There were hundreds of fantastically important success stories m the United States government. They just never got told.
Michael Lewis "The Fifth Risk" (2018)
