Lemuel Boles - These are the instructions you are getting today. It

These are the instructions you are getting today. It is only fair to tell you, however, that they may be changed tomorrow. And ten days later they may be changed back to the instructions you are getting now.

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The Washington DC Director of Civil Defense in World War II told his staff:

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Lemuel Boles, Civil Defense Director, Washington DC, Quoted in David Brinkley, Washington Goes to War, Knopf, 1988

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