Carroll Wright recognized that this simple, powerful idea could help build public confidence for the government’s effort to reduce conflicts between management and workers and move our nation forward. He and others are responsible for a fundamental feature of our democracy that is now often taken for granted – the public’s expectation and insistence that information provided by the government can be trusted.
To Carroll Wright’s descendants, one of whom is with us today, thank you, on his behalf, for this valuable contribution. This legacy lives on in the agency Carroll Wright founded, and few of his successors did as much to advance this principle as Janet Norwood.