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February 7, 2021 We asked a former RC-135 pilot to choose the Top 10 ‘Spy-Planes’ (though don’t call them that!) When we asked former Blackbird, B-57 and U-2 pilot BC Thomas for his thoughts on the Top 10 spy planes he wasn’t comfortable with the term , noting “The SR-71 was a Strategic Reconnaissance Aircraft, not a ‘spy plane.’  The practice of calling the SR-71 a ‘spy plane’ is so prevalent that I have stopped trying to correct the error, and it is no longer important sin...

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 youre 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...

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 youre 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 call...

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 youre 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 call...

Are we as strong as we must be if were 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 were 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 ...

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 youre 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 posi...

People living inside the united states legally so you can protect the tax system, you can protect the services and the benefits. one of the things that the president believes, and he said and he referenced it today that border officials, dhs people believe that there has to be a wall in certain areas. >> thats whats always been said. he is new to this. thats always been the position of border experts. thats all im saying. >> he is not new to it. >> when john kennedy was telling people in 1960 th...

>> truman said, "eisenhower knows no more about politics than a pig knows about sunday." >> in fact, relations between the democrat and the republican were so cold that the eisenhowers chose to sit in their car instead of accepting an invitation to come into the white house for a pre-inauguration cup of coffee. now eisenhower would be welcoming another democrat, the young, vital john f. kennedy. and he hoped to set an example in handing over the presidency -- not that the president liked everyth...

>> truman said, "eisenhower knows no more about politics than a pig knows about sunday." >> in fact, relations between the democrat and the republican were so cold that the eisenhowers chose to sit in their car instead of accepting an invitation to come into the white house for a pre-inauguration cup of coffee. now eisenhower would be welcoming another democrat, the young, vital john f. kennedy. and he hoped to set an example in handing over the presidency -- not that the president liked everyth...

To deliver his farewell address on january 17, 1961, it was his last chance to speak to all of america as president. >> this evening, i come to you with a message of leave taking and farewell. >> from beginning to end, it was just about 16 minutes. but it expressed a lifetime of experience. >> we yet realize that americas leadership and prestige depend not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches, and military strength but on how we use our power in the interest of world peace and hum...