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+<h1>Public Confrontations</h1>
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+<p>The episodes that follow show that Wattenburg seemed to delight in exposing the failures
+of over-confident engineers who managed public projects. His style, however, was not just to
+criticize them. He typically offered them a better idea or a clever design of his own which he
+then contributed free of charge to the public agencies in question. The trouble seems to have
+started when they said that his ideas wouldn’t work or that he didn’t know what
+he was talking about. (See <a href="BART.html">BART</a>, <a href="GoldenGate.html">Golden
+Gate Bridge Barrier</a>, and <a href="BlueWater.html">Blue Water</a> projects described below.)</p>
+
+<p>We were rather astounded at what we found from database searches of newspaper and wire
+service stories on Bill Wattenburg. At first, we were ignoring those on “Willard”
+Wattenburg, “William” Wattenburg, “Professor W. H.” Wattenburg,
+and “Ben Wattenberg” because we thought they were all different people. Then we
+realized that all but “Ben Wattenberg”, the columnist, are Bill Wattenburg. He has used
+“Willard” and “Professor W. H.” at various times and places for reasons
+of his own. His most recent mention in the New York Times uses “Willard”. We asked him
+why. He said that his driver’s license says “Willard”, so when he was out of the Bay
+Area he told press people who might have wanted to check up on him that his name is Willard Wattenburg.
+Sometimes the press was confused and used “William”. He said he never bothered to correct
+a reporter. Apparently, the importance of building national name recognition as media personality Bill
+Wattenburg did not occur to him.</p>
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+<ul>
+ <li><a href="BART.html">Fixing BART Safety</a>(Bay Area Rapid Transit System)</li>
+ <li><a href="creditcards.html">Magnetic Credit Cards</a></li>
+ <li><a href="dial-a-ride.html">Dial-A-Ride Carpooling</a></li>
+ <li><a href="MeasuringOilTanks.html">Don’t Call the FBI!</a></li>
+ <li><a href="GoldenGate.html">Golden Gate Bridge Traffic Barrier</a></li>
+ <li><a href="BlueWater.html">Blue Water (Copper) Contamination in Homes</a></li>
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