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I’m Johnnie Moore, and I help people work better together

What is it about American leaders that they like to have crowds of poker-faced people standing behind them when they’re giving speeches? From this side of the Atlantic it looks really weird. Actually it looks really naff. Haven’t these folks got something more useful to do?

(Partly prompted by Fouroboro’s post here.)

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