Dwight Eisenhower

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Meet The Geeks: The D.C. Tech Corps's Leading Edge

Elizabeth Segran | Fast Company | June 15, 2015

Here's why these techies chose to leave startups and top tech companies to serve the public good. When President Dwight Eisenhower established NASA in 1958, he called on the country's top scientists to bring their talents to the government. At the time, outer space was still a vast, unexplored mystery, and by joining NASA, astronauts had the opportunity to discover the rest of the universe "for the benefit of all," to use the organization's motto...

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Why Robert Reich Cares So Passionately About Economic Inequality

Paul Solman | PBS Newshour | October 15, 2013

Friday night's NewsHour featured about six-and-a-half minutes of an interview with newly minted movie star Robert Reich, professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. We thought some folks might be interested in the entire discussion and therefore are presenting it in two installments, edited slightly for ease of reading.

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