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> The only thing O'Nielle forgot was that politics can
> ruin any good idea, given that it might get someone
> elected, which is exactly what happened when Tricky
> Dicky decided to gut the "Democrats" great vision.
While we can probably agree that Nixon was less-than-nice (I found the revelation that he had refused to allow the carrier John F. Kennedy to pick up the Apollo 11 crew particularly galling), I don't think he was entirely to blame for what happened to NASA after Apollo. The plain simple fact of the matter is that the American people no longer cared. Like any politician, he merely responded to the public trend. We can be grateful that by approving the Shuttle, he at leastdeclined to eliminate the manned space programentirely.