On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:05:23 -0500, "Robert J. Kolker"
wrote:

Nixon was as liberal as Kennedy.

That is probably true, but Nixon had little to do with the success of
Apollo.

Nixon tried to get even with leftist academics by cutting off their
funds. By 1970 NASA was essentially out of business. Seattle was
almost a ghost town.


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"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant:
It's just that they know so much that isn't so."
--Ronald Reagan