At first glance, it was just a single line in a long, technical document—easy to overlook amid pages of careful language and procedural detail. Yet once readers noticed it, the sentence quickly drew attention. Commentators paused, reread the passage, and began asking why the President had been mentioned at all in a text that otherwise avoided personal references. What made that brief mention so striking was not its length but its placement. The document itself was written in the neutral, institutional tone typical of policy writing, where decisions are usually framed through agencies, procedures, or legal authorities rather than individual...
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