Lessons from Clinton

W. can learn

ON March 26, the New York Times published a story headlined “Some Say U.S. Lags in Blocking Foot-and- Mouth Disease at the Border.” The paper reported that many experts fear the Department of Agriculture “has nothing close to the resources it needs to protect America’s 170 million cattle, sheep, and pigs” from the disease ravaging livestock in Great Britain. “Quite frankly, the department needs much more resources at all borders,” Dan Glickman, the Clinton-administration agriculture secretary, told the Times, “and the White House needs to think about this as a threat to our national economic security.”

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Byron York

Byron York is a former White House correspondent for National Review.

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W. can learn

ON March 26, the New York Times published a story headlined “Some Say U.S. Lags in Blocking Foot-and- Mouth Disease at the Border.” The paper reported that many experts fear the Department of Agriculture “has nothing close to the resources it needs to protect America’s 170 million cattle, sheep, and pigs” from the disease ravaging livestock in Great Britain. “Quite frankly, the department needs much more resources at all borders,” Dan Glickman, the Clinton-administration agriculture secretary, told the Times, “and the White House needs to think about this as a threat to our national economic security.”