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Energy Secretary Won't Deny Affair With Solar Panel

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Humor: An overlooked and generally undervalued quality of good leaders.

As evidenced by a Facebook post last week, outgoing Energy Secretary Steven Chu proved he’s definitely got good nature to spare. In response to The Onion’s satirical accusation that he had a one night stand with a solar panel, the Nobel Prize winning physicist offered this witty response:

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Mark Micheli is the Special Projects Editor of Government Executive, editor of Excellence in Government Online and former Program Manager of the Government Business Council. Prior to his current roles, he worked on national security and emergency management issues with the US Treasury Department. He’s worked as a political research analyst, a correspondent for the Des Moines Register at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland and is a graduate of the Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs. He studied at Drake University where he has degrees in Magazine Journalism, Political Science and History.

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