Bye-bye Moon program, hello ISS to 2020

On Feb 8, 11:42*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
Frank Robertson wrote:

Of course, if Obama isn't quite the visionary that JFK or Ronald
Reagan was.....wait, let me say something here you might not here much
about. In Andrew Chaikin'shttp://www.andrewchaikin.com/book, "A
Passion for MARS," Chaikin points out that when President RR was being
briefed about the Space Station "Freedom" plan, Ronald asked, "What
does this have to with going to Mars?" Then Chaikin openly
acknowledges: 'The President was a space enthusiast!'

Reagan just wanted something to upstage Mir.
Preferably something with guns, missiles, or lasers on it.
But the real space fan was Dan Quayle, who realized getting to Mars
would be pretty easy, as it shares Earth's orbit:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/526.html

Pat

Is that quote for real? Is so he got science from the movies.
Yikes.