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Obama receives 65 000 letters a week
WASHINGTON: Barack Obama receives a whopping 65,000 letters every week, making it a Himalayan task for his White House staff to read all these
letters and then
short list a few of them for the US President to respond personally.
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Obama gives top priority to these letters as he believes that this keeps him in touch with the masses even after becoming the President. There is a special department within the White House which handles these letters every day.
"These letters, I think, do more to keep me in touch with what's happening around the country than just about anything else. Some of them are funny. Some of them are angry. A lot of them are sad or frustrated about their current situation," Obama told the CBS news.
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"It gives you a sense of what's best about America, and inspires you and makes you want to work that much harder to make sure that that -- that spirit is reflected in our government," Obama said.
"We get 65,000 paper letters every week," said Mike Kelleher, Director of the White House Office of Correspondence. |
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