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You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

John Poindexter

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John Poindexter
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: August 12
Military Officer
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Indiana
John Marlan Poindexter
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I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to.
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