Always Remember Elmer Staats

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

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Elmer Staats was a US Comptroller General - his division collected statistics and analysed government expenditure - from LBJ through Nixon, Ford and Carter.

He was a Washington landmark from a different Washington in a better time. 

RIP - he was 97.  Winner till the end.