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The secretary of defense used to be called the secretary of war, they changed it for PR reasons right around the same time we changed the term propaganda to PR. I appreciate the honesty.
The term "politically correct" was born out of this. It describes the process in which bad things are made more palatable through renaming. Other examples include: