In 1981, the Department of Defense paid $13,000 – worth over $41,000 in 2022 dollars – for a six-year study that they later admitted was completely useless, all to save the pride of a senior official who made a mistake in his Congressional testimony.
Sen. William Proxmire, a Democrat from Wisconsin, awarded the Department of Defense his Golden Fleece Award for this shameful waste of money.
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