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LanternWaste

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3. 'Instrumental' seems to be damning with faint praise, at best.

Reply to customerserviceguy (Reply #2)

Tue Jun 25, 2019, 02:25 PM

Jun 2019

Try 'Countdown: 2979 Days to the Moon' by Suzanne Slade and/or 'American Moonshot' by Douglas Brinkley for a primer on the relative merits of what the particular leaders did and did not do.

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Kennedy got us started to the moon [View all] kairos12 Jun 2019 OP

Hey - he can lob paper towels at Puerto Ricans - doesn't that count? csziggy Jun 2019 #1

While JFK customerserviceguy Jun 2019 #2

'Instrumental' seems to be damning with faint praise, at best. LanternWaste Jun 2019 #3

You can't deny customerserviceguy Jun 2019 #4