"close enough for government work" 1965

[Sam Clements]

In addition to the 1962 cite found by Bonnie for "good enough...", there's a
1965 cite in the popular press from Newspaperarchive.

Sam Clements

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bonnie Taylor-Blake" <taylor-blake at NC.RR.COM>
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Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: "close enough for government work" 1965


> Ben Zimmer pointed out:
>
>> Google Book Search has a NASA publication, _Results of the Second U.S.
>> Manned Orbital Space Flight, May 24, 1962_ (in snippet view, of
>> course). On p. 102, in what appears to be a flight transcipt, is the
>> line, "That's probably close enough for government work."
>>
>> http://books.google.com/books?id=hBoCAAAAIAAJ
>>
>> --Ben Zimmer
>
> "Good enough for government work" is in _Results of the First U.S. Manned
> Orbital Space Flight, February 20, 1962_, so it looks like the nine yards
> of
> "____ for government work" was floating around NASA in the early 1960s.
>
> http://preview.tinyurl.com/5jxzv7
>
> -- Bonnie
>
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