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On Oct 14, 9:17*pm, OM wrote:
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:06:32 -0500, "Jorge R. Frank"

wrote:
I wouldn't say it removes any national self-determination. It just makes
pulling out of a program bothersome enough to make it less probable that
large and expensive programs started by one adminstration are cancelled
by the next one.

That can be (and often is) a bug, not a feature.

...And some also claim that it's a feature if it keeps a program in
place that's doing good and doesn't need to be sacrificed so the
incoming administration can make themselves look "good" by cancelling
it. Some could argue that had NASA not been in that exact position,
Nixon could have canned it so as to put another nail in JFK's
coffin(*) and/or LBJ could have further gutted it to fund his "Great
Society". God/Yahweh/Roddenberry knows that peanut farming inbred and
his retarded VEEP wanted to do just that during their one term of
misadministration, and damn near came close to achieving it.

(*) One can't help but wonder if Rumrunner Joe Kennedy's stroke had
been earlier *and* fatal, would American politics have turned out
better if Nixon had been given that cabinet position under JFK?

Why would JFK offer Nixon a cabinet posistion?
Why would Nixon accept a cabinet position from the guy that just beat
him during the presidential race?

Don't quit your day job, whatever that is, because you ain't going to
make it as political analyst.

Eric

In sci.space.history Eric Chomko wrote:
Why would JFK offer Nixon a cabinet posistion?

Sounds like the sort of thing one would do in countries where
coalition goverments need to be formed. That, or something someone
who took "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer" very much
to heart.

Why would Nixon accept a cabinet position from the guy that just
beat him during the presidential race?

I agree it would be unlikely, particularly since Nixon had previously
been VP under Eisenhower. Still, why did Hillary Clinton accept the
appointment to be U.S. Secretary of State by Barak Obama? Is being
beaten during the primary really that much different for this sort of
thing?

Don't quit your day job, whatever that is, because you ain't going
to make it as political analyst.

How does the saying go? "Politics makes strange bedfellows."

rick jones
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