A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.
It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.
The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.

