Former GSA Administrator Analyzes President Obama‘s Falling Approval Ratings
20 August 2009
Recently, Lurita Doan, former Administrator of the General Services Administration, joined CFIF's Renee Giachino to analyze President Obama's falling approval ratings and to discuss whether the President has the courage to change his position on his expansive government experiments, such as health care reform, before they fail.
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