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by oblio 2655 days ago
> We had a very interesting gentleman in Washington named Wilson. He was Secretary of Defense, and he actually had a pathological fear and hatred of the word research.

Amusingly, Engine Charlie [1] was an engineer. You'd think an engineer understands the value of research :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Erwin_Wilson