Seek source of Dan Goldin quote,"I'm White House's man at NASA"

Seek source of Dan Goldin quote,"I'm White House's man at NASA"

I'm seeking the source, accurate text, and context of
a quotation attributed to Dan Goldin during the Clinton-Gore
years, to the effect that "I'm not NASA's man at the
White House, I'm the White House's man at NASA."
Please help. The relevance to current concerns over
political influence over NASA should be evident. Thanks!

Jim Oberg wrote:
Seek source of Dan Goldin quote,"I'm White House's man at NASA"

I'm seeking the source, accurate text, and context of
a quotation attributed to Dan Goldin during the Clinton-Gore
years, to the effect that "I'm not NASA's man at the
White House, I'm the White House's man at NASA."
Please help. The relevance to current concerns over
political influence over NASA should be evident. Thanks!

You might contact Walt Cunningham. See

http://www.waltercunningham.com/op_ed_082603.htm

"Dan Goldin was never NASA's man. He was president Clinton's man and he
made no bones about it."

--
Dave Michelson

Jim Oberg wrote:

Seek source of Dan Goldin quote,"I'm White House's man at NASA"

Seek the source of the quote : "We're going to clean this mess up".

Oh, I remember now, that was George Bush, in New Orleans after Katrina.

Heck of a job there George.

http://cosmic.lifeform.org

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:21:02 GMT, in a place far, far away, "Jim
Oberg" made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

Seek source of Dan Goldin quote,"I'm White House's man at NASA"

I'm seeking the source, accurate text, and context of
a quotation attributed to Dan Goldin during the Clinton-Gore
years, to the effect that "I'm not NASA's man at the
White House, I'm the White House's man at NASA."
Please help. The relevance to current concerns over
political influence over NASA should be evident. Thanks!

Sorry, Jim, the only quite I can find along those lines is from you.
;-)

http://www.nasawatch.com/comments/10....comments.html

"Jim Oberg" wrote in message
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Seek source of Dan Goldin quote,"I'm White House's man at NASA"

I'm seeking the source, accurate text, and context of
a quotation attributed to Dan Goldin during the Clinton-Gore
years, to the effect that "I'm not NASA's man at the
White House, I'm the White House's man at NASA."
Please help. The relevance to current concerns over
political influence over NASA should be evident. Thanks!



Dan Goldin was appointed by Bush, the first one.

"Jim Oberg" wrote:
Seek source of Dan Goldin quote,"I'm White House's man at NASA"

I'm seeking the source, accurate text, and context of
a quotation attributed to Dan Goldin during the Clinton-Gore
years, to the effect that "I'm not NASA's man at the
White House, I'm the White House's man at NASA."

How is that possible, when he was appointed by George H. W. Bush in 1992?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_S._Goldin

So ironically, if your quote were accurate....

Dave Michelson wrote:
You might contact Walt Cunningham. See

http://www.waltercunningham.com/op_ed_082603.htm

"Dan Goldin was never NASA's man. He was president Clinton's man and he
made no bones about it."

As pointed out elsewhere, Goldin was appointed by Bush Sr. in 1992. If any
credence is given to Cunningham's opinion piece, it might be more accurate
to say Goldin was an apolitical servant of whoever was in the White House.

Which is presumably what is expected of someone holding that position.

and the significance of this was -- what?



"jonathan" wrote in message
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"Jim Oberg" wrote in message
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Seek source of Dan Goldin quote,"I'm White House's man at NASA"

I'm seeking the source, accurate text, and context of
a quotation attributed to Dan Goldin during the Clinton-Gore
years, to the effect that "I'm not NASA's man at the
White House, I'm the White House's man at NASA."
Please help. The relevance to current concerns over
political influence over NASA should be evident. Thanks!



Dan Goldin was appointed by Bush, the first one.

Life's like that -- some things are just real,
even if our own minds can't quite get a grip on them.



"Jim Logajan" wrote in message
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"Jim Oberg" wrote:
Seek source of Dan Goldin quote,"I'm White House's man at NASA"

I'm seeking the source, accurate text, and context of
a quotation attributed to Dan Goldin during the Clinton-Gore
years, to the effect that "I'm not NASA's man at the
White House, I'm the White House's man at NASA."

How is that possible, when he was appointed by George H. W. Bush in 1992?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_S._Goldin

So ironically, if your quote were accurate....

"Jim Oberg" wrote:
and the significance of this was -- what?

If I may...

Since Goldin was appointed by Bush Sr. and if he allegedly made the
statement while serving under Clinton, it means that his statement probably
indicates he considered himself an apolitical servant of the current
administration.

Presumably then, any thesis using the Goldin quote as evidence would then
need to argue that George Deutsch was acting in an apolitical capacity.
Otherwise the situations don't appear analogous. Not impossible, but
clearly a stretch for some of us to swallow.

So you're probably barking up the wrong tree. There are probably a lot
better examples to show past political influence on NASA PR.

But please please think carefully before you write an article that uses the
amoral excuse "they got away with, why can't we?"

"jonathan" wrote in message
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"Jim Oberg" wrote in message
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Seek source of Dan Goldin quote,"I'm White House's man at NASA"

I'm seeking the source, accurate text, and context of
a quotation attributed to Dan Goldin during the Clinton-Gore
years, to the effect that "I'm not NASA's man at the
White House, I'm the White House's man at NASA."
Please help. The relevance to current concerns over
political influence over NASA should be evident. Thanks!



Dan Goldin was appointed by Bush, the first one.