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Gore’s illusory reinvention.

Vice President Al Gore may never again say he invented the Internet, but as next year’s presidential contest heats up he will claim again and again to have reinvented government. He will crow about how his National Partnership for Reinventing Government slashed the federal workforce to its lowest level since the Kennedy administration—and its smallest size as a percentage of the national labor force since the 1930s (351,000 federal positions shed since 1993). He will declare that federal communications are now written in “plain English.” There is speculation that Gore will soon announce another rollback of 300,000 jobs.

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John J. Miller

John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.

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Gore’s illusory reinvention.

Vice President Al Gore may never again say he invented the Internet, but as next year’s presidential contest heats up he will claim again and again to have reinvented government. He will crow about how his National Partnership for Reinventing Government slashed the federal workforce to its lowest level since the Kennedy administration—and its smallest size as a percentage of the national labor force since the 1930s (351,000 federal positions shed since 1993). He will declare that federal communications are now written in “plain English.” There is speculation that Gore will soon announce another rollback of 300,000 jobs.

About the Author

John J. Miller

John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.