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It all but sank his presidential campaign in 2011 when former Texas Gov. Rick Perry forgot one of the three federal agencies he had promised to erase.
“Oops,” he said, during the Republican presidential primary debate, drawing a blank on live TV.
Perry, oddly enough, was appointed years later to lead that very same agency by then-President Donald Trump. It was the Department of Energy, in case you’ve forgotten that Perry was a Cabinet secretary.
