Rand Simberg ) wrote:
: On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:51:37 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
: (Eric Chomko) made the phosphor on my monitor
: glow in such a way as to indicate that:

: : I'll tend to take private conversations over public,
:
: ...out of context? One DOES wonder...

: What out of context? The context is there.

Yes, JFK stated that going to the moon was important, possibly the most
important program in the govt., but he himself was that interested in
space. Interested but not THAT interested.

:
: when it comes to
: : determining presidents' true views.
:
: I'd like to see the whole transcript. I wonder if the word "that"
: (interested in space) was in relationship to something else? Also, the
: exact date of the conversation with Webb micght shed some light on the
: seemingly blantant contradiction to other communications by JFK.

: There is no contradiction, except with public speeches for public
: consumption.

I listened to the whole thing. Granted he is no scientist and clearly a
politician. Despite that, it is clear he set a high priority on going to
the moon. I just think we wasn't going to commit the entire US budget to
it and that if other projects were competing for funds to push them out 6
or 9 months into the future. As he was not THAT interested in space (to
commit huge sums of money to it).

This whole thing makes me wonder what the VietNam War cost in comparison
to the Apollo project. I also wonder where the secret tapes are that JFK
made that commits us to the VietNam War?

Perhaps that is on another newsgroup?

Eric

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