Ear to the ground

US President Barack Obama recently hosted a healthcare summit at which he said he reads 10 of the 40,000 letters sent daily from Americans to the White House.

Sat, 27 Feb, 2010 - 00:00
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He reads these letters at night in his private quarters. It is one of his ways of keeping in touch with the grassroots.

I wonder how many letters from the public (not his constituents) does Brian Cowen read, in or out of hours?

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