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Narrator: Welcome to a
special summer edition
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of West Wing Week, your guide
to everything that's
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happening at 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue.
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This week, the President
focused on the developing
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situations both in Iraq
and in our nation's
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heartland in
Ferguson, Missouri.
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West Wing Week tagged
along for the first
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few hours and days of one of
the newest employees here
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at the White House, and
for the launch
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of the newly created U.S. Digital Service.
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That's August 8th to
August 14th,
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or, "Mikey Goes to Washington."
Throughout the week,
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the President kept the country
updated on developments
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in Iraq, and on Thursday, he
addressed
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the situation in Ferguson, Missouri.
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The President: I know that
many Americans have
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been deeply disturbed by the
images we've seen
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in the heartland of our country,
as police
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have clashed with people protesting.
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Today, I'd like us all to
take a step back
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and think about how we're going
to be moving forward.
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This morning, I received
a thorough update
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on the situation from Attorney
General Eric Holder,
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who's been following and been
in communication
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with his team.
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Now is the time for
healing,
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now is the time for peace and
calm on the streets of Ferguson.
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Now is the time for an
open
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and transparent process to see
that justice is done,
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and I've asked that the Attorney
General
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and the U.S. Attorney on the
scene continue
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to work with local officials to
move that process forward.
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They will be reporting
to me in the coming
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days about what's being done to
make sure that happens.
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Narrator: On Monday
morning at 8:00 a.m.,
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Mikey Dickerson, a top
private sector
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engineer who was part of the
team that helped
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fix healthcare.gov, arrived at
the White House gates for
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the first day of his new
job: to serve
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as the administrator to
launch
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the U.S. Digital Service.
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Building on the same
proven strategic approach
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that ultimately enabled
millions of Americans
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to sign up for health
insurance,
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this small team of America's
best digital experts will work
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in collaboration with other
government agencies toward
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simplicity and efficiency,
to make websites
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more consumer-friendly, to
identify and fix
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problems, and to help upgrade
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the government's technology infrastructure.
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Mikey Dickerson:
Interacting with
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the government shouldn't
be a thing that
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you automatically dread.
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Things like filing your
taxes,
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this is like on the list
of things that people
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put that usually mention in the
same sentences, like going
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to the dentist and stuff like
that, right?
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And it's probably never
going to be exactly fun,
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but a lot of like -- look
at the experience
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people had trying to sign up for
healthcare.gov at first.
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Things like that should
be a process
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that you go through and
immediately forget
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about because it wasn't any big deal.
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And all of your other
interactions
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with the government could
be that smooth.
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If we are a smash success,
then a few years from now,
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you won't even know that
we exist,
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and we won't even remember that
we ever existed,
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because government technology
is basically fine.
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Narrator: You can find out
more about
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any of these topics and see
complete videos of these events
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at whitehouse.gov, and thanks
so much
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for checking out this edition of
West Wing Week.
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Mikey Dickerson: Today,
senior administration
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officials will hold a
call to discuss
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the White House's launch
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of the U.S. Digital Service.
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I assume
that this is going
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to be rather like the
movie trailer voice.
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Female Speaker: Yeah.
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Mikey Dickerson: Or else
the one that does
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the, like the tractor.
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Female Speaker: The world.
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Mikey Dickerson: Yeah.
