He replied:
“Cynics will tell you that Washington is a swamp and no matter where you come from, when you get there you get muddy, you’re gonna get mired, you’re gonna, get quick sand. Your gonna end up is dirty as everyone else…
"(However) if you are a historian, you also look and say: wait a minute. Some people have come to Washington and have done better than others. Even the swamp can be changed, you can drain the swamp, you can spray the swamp … you can dehydrate, there is a lot of things you can do about a swamp other than get sucked up by it, and there have been presidents who’ve been more successful and less successful doing it.
"Will this be a period like the aftermaths of the civil war, like the New Deal, where America remakes itself, where it drains the swamp and fixes it and the answer to this is: it could happen, it could happen, we will see.”
I will be sharing more of our insightful interviews as I cover the inauguration and its aftermath.
News Dissector Danny Schechter is a filmmaker, editor of Mediachannel.org and the author of PLUNDER: Investigating Our Economic Calamity (Cosimo Books at Amazon,org) Comments to dissector@mediachannel.org
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