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Johnson is also basically the reason why most of this happened at all.
by nickik 6y ago
Johnson is also basically the reason why most of this happened at all.
- nickff 6y agoHow so? Johnson definitely did a lot of pork-barreling with the space program funds, but I think the main reason that Apollo went forward was because Kennedy had espoused a grand vision shortly before being shot. Without Lee Harvey Oswald, I doubt that Neil and Buzz would have made it to the moon, especially given Apollo 1.
- nickik 6y agoWell money is important and it was Johnson who pushed the idea on Kennedy. Kennedy initial thought the idea pretty nonsense, Johnson early on saw NASA a soft-power instrument.