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Public Confrontations

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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 BART, Golden +Gate Bridge Barrier, and Blue Water projects described below.)

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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.

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