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...Wiesner. My feelings are complicated. I'm sorry we didn't win it. I think, nonetheless, it was a vital fight.. It showed that you could make a good fight against a foolish decision.. I believe that it exposed the military issues in a public way for the first time. I think that personally I spent far too much time on it. But I never really felt we lost it, because we kept it down, we helped Congress be responsible, we helped the public become informed. I think much of what has happened since...
...Wiesner. I think in a real sense the nation won. Congress looks at everything seriously now. The public will not buy...new weapons without looking at their purposes. You can't scare them by telling them the Russian's have three, as they used...
...Wiesner. The ABM has been held to a modest waste of money, you know, a couple of billion dollars instead of 40 or 50 billion. So even on that score I think there was substantial gain...
...Wiesner. When Johnson became President, he already had a history of differences with the scientists on issues that had nothing to do with Vietnam. We had differed on the space effort. Most of us were against the crash manned space program, and we had, of course, argued about that, I had been opposed to the Mach 3 SST and he was for it. There were a whole variety of issues that had caused tensions between the Science Advisory Committee and Johnson. So when (Donald F.) Hornig became science advisor, he had to carry the burden of Johnson's alienation from...
...Wiesner. Right; when he was vice-president and chairman of the space council and space was the only real problem on which he had initiative...