HYMN TO THE PRESIDENT

Oh President -- to us below
        Look down and put us in the know
Teach us to study and comply
        With memoranda till we die

Teach us always to reverence
        Committees more than common sense
And train us to our special craft
        Of re-writing our eighteenth draft

And if the tempter seeks to give
        Us feeling of initiative
Or if alone we go too far
        Chastise us with a circular

Through missions, meetings, flights and storms
        Give us the strength to fill up forms
Thus may your whole staff their whole life through
        Report the way you want them to.

by B.S. Braithwaite
(1968) "The Mc Namara Years"

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