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Prepare for the Worst

Peggy Noonan is a former White House speechwriter and adviser to President Reagan. Here is her advice for President-Elect Obama.

From Reader's Digest

Read more memos to President-Elect Barack Obama.

Mr. President, chances are good that a terror event worse than 9/11 will happen on American soil on your watch and under your leadership.Is thissomething you think about every day? If not, why not? If so,what is the biggest thing America needs to have right now in orderto help ithold together on a day, or week, or months, that will likely be very difficult, and that may well test our unity, and our mettle: (Hint: enhanced civil defense? A strengthened electrical grid? An American president who tries, every time he speaks, not to divide us into blocs and slivers but to see us, and encourage us to be, an America whole and entire?)

From Reader's Digest - January 2009

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