This is one of my favorite quotes from the Vietnam era:
"I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."
Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)
I think it sums up the whole Vietnam era double speak perfectly. I had thought that Richard Nixon said it, but evidently not. And this Robert McCloskey is not the same one who wrote "Make Way For Ducklings", though they were contemporaries.
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