missile gap, a space gap. so did lyndon johnson. in fact, lbj helped create nasa in 1958. our whole creation of nasa was a response to sputnik. and in the late 50s, everything became nik. they put a dog up, and it became pooch nik. sputnik kind of motivated jack kennedy. by 1960 in the debates with richard nixon, kennedy charged nixon that if you re president, i see a soviet flag on the moon. if you elect me president, there will be an american flag on the moon. doug, this calls for a judgment, but you re a historian after all. how would lbj and jfk take the news that in this very day, if we want to get our astronauts um to the international space station, our ride is the russians . we don t have a spacecraft ready for the task. where did we lose it along the
he said there was a missile gap a space gap remembrance so did lyndon johnson. in fact, lbj helped create nasty in 1958. our whole creation of nasa was in response to sputnik. everything became nik. that he put dog out and called it pooch nik. sputnik kind of motivated jack kennedy. so by 1960 and the debates with richard nixon, kennedy charged nixon that if you re president, i see a soviet flag on the moon. if you elect me president, there will be an american flag on the moon. doug, this calls for a judgment, but you re a historian after all. how would lbj and jfk take the news that in this very day, if we want to get our astronauts up to the international space station, our ride is the russians. we don t have a spacecraft ready for the task. where did we lose it along the
he said there was a missile gap a space gap remembrance so did lyndon johnson. in fact, lbj helped create nasty in 1958. our whole creation of nasa was in response to sputnik. everything became nik. that he put dog out and called it pooch nik. sputnik kind of motivated jack kennedy. so by 1960 and the debates with richard nixon, kennedy charged nixon that if you re president, i see a soviet flag on the moon. if you elect me president, there will be an american flag on the moon. doug, this calls for a judgment, but you re a historian after all. how would lbj and jfk take the news that in this very day, if we want to get our astronauts up to the international space station, our ride is the russians. we don t have a spacecraft ready for the task. where did we lose it along the
are we as strong as we must be if we re going to maintain our independence? kennedy was a cold warrior more than eisenhower was, really. i want people in latin america and africa and asia to start to look to america. to see how we re doing things, to wonder what the president of the united states is doing, and not to look at khrushchev or look to the chinese communists. the fact is that kennedy did run to the right of nixon, and he was saying that they were letting the russians get ahead of us in missiles. it frightens people. it s not true. but it frightens people, and it s very effective in the campaign. i believe the soviet union is first in outer space. you yourself said to khrushchev, you may be ahead of us in rocket thrusts, but we re ahead of you in color television. i think that color television is not as important as missile development. the missile gap was a total lie. we out missiled them at that time better than 100 to 1.
long time. when john kennedy was telling people in 1960 there was a missile gap and he campaigned hard on a missile gap. and ike was upset with him over it. and when he got to the office and he saw the missiles and he realized we were in a missile surplus he was wrong. is that something to be rewarded? no you re misrepresentation t missing the point. if you have less information than you do as a president, smart people, people that are geniuses, smart people, they change their position and they alter themselves. and so every politician has to do that. that is wrong. hold on a second. president obama i m with him on this. i m pro-gay marriage, as you know. i m for all of the social progressive things. that s not about facts. he was against gay marriage. he changed his mind, he said he grew in his perspective. that s not about how many missiles you have or whether or not a wall is what s needed by