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The New York Times has an article looking into the daily work of Mike Kelleher, the director of the White House Office of Correspondence, and the man solely responsible for picking and choosing 10 letters a day to give to the President of the United States.
Tens of thousands of letters, e-mail messages and faxes arrive at the White House every day. A few hundred are culled and end up each weekday afternoon on a round wooden table in the office of Mr. Kelleher, the director of the White House Office of Correspondence.
He chooses 10 letters, which are slipped into a purple folder and put in the daily briefing book that is delivered to President Obama at the White House residence. Designed to offer a sampling of what Americans are thinking, the letters are read by the president, and he sometimes answers them by hand, in black ink on azure paper.
Be sure to check out some of the sample letters that have made it all the way through to the President.
