MSNBC The 11th Hour With Brian Williams December 25, 2019 07:49:00
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 ...
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