The first time I saw Michael Cromartie, he was riding a bike. We were in the middle of Montana, at a conference to which we had both been invited. Michael had found the complimentary one-speeds that the hotel provided. Still in his business casual travel attire, Cromartie was already on the go, with a grin on his face. That life of indomitable energy entered a new phase on August 28. Stomach cancer forced Michael to leave this world at age 67, far too early in the minds of the many people he had touched around the world, especially in Washington, D.C., where he was long vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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