Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.llnl.gov!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!bionet!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxg.cso.uiuc.edu!uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!ahiggins From: ahiggins@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: Dan Quayle on the Space Race Message-ID: <45000021@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 25 Jan 89 06:21:00 GMT References: <45000017@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Lines: 44 Nf-ID: #R:uxe.cso.uiuc.edu:45000017:uxe.cso.uiuc.edu:45000021:000:1825 Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!ahiggins Jan 25 00:21:00 1989 From: tneff@well.UUCP (Tom Neff) > Andrew Higgins shifts his ground with all the admirable agility you'd > hope for in someone with the unenviable job of defending Dan Quayle > before this newsgroup. :-) It's an ugly job, but... :-) Seriously, I still contend that the article is a promising indication of Quayle's stand on the space program. Granted, the _Journal of Defense and Diplomacy_ article wasn't much, but it was more than anyone else on Usenet has been able to provide regarding Quayle's position on space. The purpose of my second response was that even if Quayle didn't pen the article himself (which I will now acknowledge is not outside the realm of possibilities) it is still of some significance. That is why I started it with,"If you want to be really cynical..." > Dan wasn't really that dumb or uninformed after all, on the strength of > a defense policy article dealing with space issues. Then a bunch of The essay was *not* a defense policy article. > .... Yeah, and if he doesn't > do what we want (who's this we, white man? Aha, there's an NSS in the > signature) By "we" I mean all who would like see a more active civil space program. > ....Dan has been given this > job as a sinecure, and no matter how many articles his gophers put out No. George Bush announced before his selection of Dan Quayle that his Vice President would head the National Space Council. -- Andrew J. Higgins | Illini Space Development Society 404 1/2 E. White St apt 3 | a chapter of the National Space Society Champaign IL 61820 | at the University of Illinois phone: (217) 359-0056 | P.O. Box 2255 Station A e-mail: ahiggins@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu | Champaign IL 61825 "Don't try to get the last word, you might get it." - Robert A. Heinlein