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19, 2001</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Kathleen deLaski</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Victoria_Clarke" title="Victoria Clarke">Victoria Clarke</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Kenneth Hogate Bacon</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1944-11-21</span>)</span>November 21, 1944<br /><a href="/wiki/Bronxville,_New_York" title="Bronxville, New York">Bronxville, New York</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">August 15, 2009<span style="display:none">(2009-08-15)</span> (aged 64)<br /><a href="/wiki/Block_Island" title="Block Island">Block Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Darcy Wheeler</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Amherst_College" title="Amherst College">Amherst College</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data">Journalist</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link 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class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Service <wbr />/ branch</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_the_United_States_Army.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_States_Army.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_the_United_States_Army.svg/33px-Flag_of_the_United_States_Army.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_the_United_States_Army.svg/43px-Flag_of_the_United_States_Army.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="6336" data-file-height="4992" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Years of service</th><td class="infobox-data">1968–1974</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Unit</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/U.S._Army_Reserve" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Army Reserve">U.S. Army Reserve</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Kenneth Hogate Bacon</b> (November 21, 1944 – August 15, 2009) was an American journalist who served as a spokesman for the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense" title="United States Department of Defense">Department of Defense</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Bill_Clinton" title="Presidency of Bill Clinton">Presidency of Bill Clinton</a>, and later as president of <a href="/wiki/Refugees_International" title="Refugees International">Refugees International</a>, an organization advocating for <a href="/wiki/Displaced_persons" class="mw-redirect" title="Displaced persons">displaced persons</a> and solutions for displacement crises. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Bacon&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bacon was born in <a href="/wiki/Bronxville,_New_York" title="Bronxville, New York">Bronxville</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He attended <a href="/wiki/Phillips_Exeter_Academy" title="Phillips Exeter Academy">Phillips Exeter Academy</a> in <a href="/wiki/Exeter,_New_Hampshire" title="Exeter, New Hampshire">Exeter, New Hampshire</a>, for high school, graduating in 1962; the school honored him in 2007 with its John Phillips Award, which recognizes graduates for their contributions to society.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He earned his undergraduate degree at <a href="/wiki/Amherst_College" title="Amherst College">Amherst College</a>, where his father was a dean<sup id="cite_ref-Stephen_Miller_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stephen_Miller-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and also taught <a href="/wiki/Political_science" title="Political science">political science</a>. After Amherst, Bacon received post-graduate education at <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a>, where he earned simultaneous <a href="/wiki/Master%27s_degree" title="Master's degree">master's degrees</a> in business and journalism.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bacon served in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Reserve" title="United States Army Reserve">U.S. Army Reserve</a> from 1968 to 1974. After two years working in the office of <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">U.S. Senator</a> <a href="/wiki/Thomas_J._McIntyre" title="Thomas J. McIntyre">Thomas J. McIntyre</a> (<a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">D</a>–<a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire">NH</a>) as a legislative assistant, he was hired by <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a></i> (WSJ) as a reporter (1965).<sup id="cite_ref-Stephen_Miller_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stephen_Miller-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was assigned to the paper's bureau in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>, working his way up to become a <a href="/wiki/Columnist" title="Columnist">columnist</a> and editor.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Spokesman_at_Defense_Department">Spokesman at Defense Department</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Bacon&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Spokesman at Defense Department"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:William_Perry_-_Kenneth_Bacon.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/William_Perry_-_Kenneth_Bacon.JPG/220px-William_Perry_-_Kenneth_Bacon.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/William_Perry_-_Kenneth_Bacon.JPG/330px-William_Perry_-_Kenneth_Bacon.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/William_Perry_-_Kenneth_Bacon.JPG/440px-William_Perry_-_Kenneth_Bacon.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1994" data-file-height="1535" /></a><figcaption>Bacon and Secretary of Defense <a href="/wiki/William_J._Perry" title="William J. Perry">William J. Perry</a> during a flight to <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>, 1995</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/William_J._Perry" title="William J. Perry">William Perry</a>, who had served as US Undersecretary of Defense in the 1970s and had become familiar with WSJ reporter Bacon while in that capacity, was named to serve as <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense" title="United States Secretary of Defense">Secretary of Defense</a> in the Clinton Administration in 1994. He invited Bacon to serve as <a href="/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_of_Defense_for_Public_Affairs" class="mw-redirect" title="Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs">Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs</a>, serving as the public face of the Defense Department.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Stephen_Miller_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stephen_Miller-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1997 Bacon was retained in his post<sup id="cite_ref-Stephen_Miller_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stephen_Miller-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by Perry's successor at the Defense Department, <a href="/wiki/William_Cohen" title="William Cohen">William Cohen</a>. As part of <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a>'s involvement in the <a href="/wiki/Kosovo_War" title="Kosovo War">Kosovo War</a>, Bacon represented the Defense Department on a visit to the <a href="/wiki/Balkans" title="Balkans">Balkans</a> in 1999 with Cohen, which included visiting a <a href="/wiki/Refugee_camp" title="Refugee camp">refugee camp</a>. Bacon later said he had never before realized "the sheer magnitude of one million people leaving their homes and needing food, shelter and medical care" and then returning to their homes after the cessation of hostilities and wondered if [those who had assisted] Kosovar refugees could "give the same attention to the refugees in the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" title="Democratic Republic of the Congo">Congo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sudan" title="Sudan">Sudan</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Linda_Tripp_incident">Linda Tripp incident</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Bacon&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Linda Tripp incident"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Lewinsky_scandal" class="mw-redirect" title="Lewinsky scandal">Lewinsky scandal</a></div> <p>In March 1998, Bacon released details of employee <a href="/wiki/Linda_Tripp" title="Linda Tripp">Linda Tripp</a>'s personnel file to a reporter, disclosing that Tripp had omitted on her employment application an incident that occurred when she was arrested for theft when she was 19 years old. Tripp, a Defense Department employee, had been a friend of <a href="/wiki/Monica_Lewinsky" title="Monica Lewinsky">Monica Lewinsky</a>, who had herself worked as an assistant in Bacon's office in 1996 and 1997 (having been hired on the recommendation of the <a href="/wiki/White_House" title="White House">White House</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-Stephen_Miller_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stephen_Miller-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bacon was criticized for violating <a href="/wiki/Privacy_laws_of_the_United_States" title="Privacy laws of the United States">privacy laws</a> and harming Tripp's reputation. In response to a Defense Department <a href="/wiki/Inspector_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Inspector General">Inspector General</a>'s report in 2000 that concluded that Bacon had not followed authorized procedures, William Cohen published a letter that had been sent to Bacon in which Bacon's actions were called "hasty and ill-conceived".<sup id="cite_ref-WashPostObit_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WashPostObit-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bacon issued a statement that the information he released was driven by "a desire to be responsive to an urgent media inquiry" and that the Inspector General's two-year investigation did not find any connection to the White House.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a 2003 settlement, following a lawsuit which claimed that the revelations violated the <a href="/wiki/Privacy_Act_of_1974" title="Privacy Act of 1974">Privacy Act of 1974</a>, Tripp received a payment of $595,000, retroactive promotion and salary increases for the years 1998 to 2000 and the right to reapply for government employment.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Refugees_International">Refugees International</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Bacon&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Refugees International"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Refugees_International" title="Refugees International">Refugees International</a></div> <p>Bacon said he recognized that becoming a refugee was a matter of circumstance that could affect anyone, noting that his own "blue-blooded <a href="/wiki/White_Anglo-Saxon_Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="White Anglo-Saxon Protestant">WASP</a>" ancestors were refugees themselves, who "came over from <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a> in 1630, fleeing debts for all I know".<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After leaving his government post in 2001, Bacon became president of <a href="/wiki/Refugees_International" title="Refugees International">Refugees International</a>, which asks world leaders to assist the millions worldwide who have fled their homes due to violence or persecution. The organization regularly advises and lobbies government and UN agencies, including <a href="/wiki/Peacekeeping" title="Peacekeeping">peacekeeping</a> bodies.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WashPostObit_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WashPostObit-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BloomObit_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BloomObit-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bacon focused much of his work on advocating for additional protection and assistance to displaced people from Sudan's <a href="/wiki/Darfur" title="Darfur">Darfur</a> region and <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>. He also drew attention to displaced people in Afghanistan, <a href="/wiki/Burma" class="mw-redirect" title="Burma">Burma</a>, the Democratic Republic of Congo, <a href="/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thailand</a>. During Bacon's tenure as president of Refugees International, the organization doubled in size.<sup id="cite_ref-APObit_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-APObit-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the weeks before the <a href="/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq">2003 invasion of Iraq</a>, Bacon suggested such methods as selection of bombing targets outside of densely populated areas as a means to reduce the number of refugees. In September 2003, Bacon encouraged <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">French</a> participation in the peacekeeping forces in Iraq, based on that nation's prior experience in such circumstances.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Emphasizing that "the US cannot afford to win the military battle and lose the humanitarian campaign" in Iraq, Bacon advocated for increased numbers of Iraqi refugees to be allowed to enter the United States and for greater American financial assistance to refugees from violence in Iraq, with funding from the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State" title="United States Department of State">State Department</a> rising from $43 million in 2006 to $398 million in 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-WashPostObit_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WashPostObit-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Five days before his death (August 10), Refugees International announced that Bacon had endowed a new program to focus on people displaced by <a href="/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Stephen_Miller_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stephen_Miller-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Bacon&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bacon wrote an essay about <a href="/wiki/Health_care_reform_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Health care reform in the United States">health care reform</a> from his own perspective as a <a href="/wiki/Cancer" title="Cancer">cancer</a> patient, a "matter of life and death" for him, that was published in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i> 25 days before his death. His recommendations included prevention and online efficiencies, citing his own example of <a href="/wiki/Melanoma" title="Melanoma">melanoma</a> that could have been treatable if caught earlier given a family history of the condition. He described difficulties in obtaining approval for payment of <a href="/wiki/Radiation_therapy" title="Radiation therapy">radiation therapy</a> for cancer that had spread to his brain, which his <a href="/wiki/Health_insurance" title="Health insurance">insurer</a> had deemed "not medically necessary", and expressed frustration with the amount of time he and his physician had to spend in dealing with paperwork.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He served as chairman of the <a href="/wiki/Folger_Shakespeare_Library" title="Folger Shakespeare Library">Folger Shakespeare Library</a> and was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations" title="Council on Foreign Relations">Council on Foreign Relations</a> and the <a href="/wiki/International_Institute_for_Strategic_Studies" title="International Institute for Strategic Studies">International Institute for Strategic Studies</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WashPostObit_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WashPostObit-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Death">Death</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Bacon&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A resident of Washington, D.C., Bacon died at age 64 of complications related to melanoma, at his second home on <a href="/wiki/Block_Island" title="Block Island">Block Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a>. He and his wife of 43 years, the former Darcy Wheeler, had two daughters.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WashPostObit_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WashPostObit-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Bacon&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-NYTObit-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NYTObit_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NYTObit_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NYTObit_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NYTObit_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NYTObit_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NYTObit_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NYTObit_1-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NYTObit_1-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NYTObit_1-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFMartin2009" class="citation web cs1">Martin, Douglas (August 15, 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/us/16bacon.html">"K. 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