Red Moon Rising Sputnik and the Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age - Matthew Brzezinski [171]
the putting green he had installed just outside his patio doors: Ambrose, Eisenhower, p. 398.
171 played golf for the fifth time that week: Dickson, Sputnik, p. 22.
“an event of considerable technical and scientific importance”: John Foster Dulles Papers, Dwight Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas, at http://www.history.nasa.gov/sputnik/15.html.
“without military significance,” “A neat technical trick,” “A silly bauble,” “in an outer space basketball game”: Killian, Sputnik, Scientists, and Eisenhower, p. 10.
“hunk of iron”: Burrows, This New Ocean, p. 187.
“a propaganda stunt”: Divine, The Sputnik Challenge, p. xv.
like a “canary that jumps on the eagle’s back”: Burrows, This New Ocean, p. 186.
“Listen now”: Time, October 12, 1956.
“Soviet Fires Earth Satellite”: New York Times, October 5, 1957.
172 “Here in the capital”: Richard Witkin, ed., The Challenge of the Sputniks (New York: Doubleday Headline Publications, 1958), p. 9.
173 “a great national emergency,” comparisons to the shots fired at Lexington and Concord, “a technological Pearl Harbor”: Divine, The Sputnik Challenge, p. xvi.
“chilling beeps”: Time, October 14, 1957.
“The reaction here indicates massive indifference”: Witkin, ed., The Challenge of the Sputniks, p. 3.
only 13 percent of Americans saw Sputnik as a sign: Dickson, Sputnik, p. 23.
174 “When I asked what this country should do”: Shirley Ann Warshaw, ed., Reexamining the Eisenhower Presidency (Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1993), p. 108.
“I have been warning about this growing danger”: New York Times, October 5, 1957.
“a National Week of Shame and Danger”: Time, October 21, 1957.
“We now know beyond a doubt”: New York Times, October 5, 1957.
175 “liked nothing better than to careen over the hills”: Woods, LBJ, p. 313.
an air-conditioned, glass-enclosed, forty-foot-high hunting blind: Ibid.
“Soon they will be dropping bombs on us”: Dickson, Sputnik, p. 117.
“a full and exhaustive inquiry”: Henry Dethloff, Suddenly, Tomorrow Came (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1994), p. 3.
176 “I made sure that there was always one companion”: Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1976), p. 105.
“I knew there was only one way to see Russell everyday”: Ibid., p. 103.
some 4 percent of the U.S. population would report seeing Sputnik: International Affairs Seminars of Washington, “American Reactions to Crisis: Examples of Pre-Sputnik and Post-Sputnik Attitudes and of the Reaction to Other Events Perceived as Threats,” U.S. President’s Committee on Information Activities Abroad Records, 1959-1961, box 5, A83-10, Dwight D Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas, at http://www.history.nasa.gov/sputnik/oct58.html.
177 “We can’t always go changing our program”: Warshaw, ed., Reexamining the Eisenhower Presidency, p. 109.
“Ike Plays Golf, Hears the News”: Dickson, Sputnik, p. 22.
“This was a place where Eisenhower went wrong”: Bille and Lishock, The First Space Race, p. 107.
177 “I can’t understand why the American people”: Ibid.
178 “There was no doubt that the Redstone” and other quotes from October 8, 1957, White House damage-control meeting: http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/sputnik-memo/images/memo-page2-1.gif.
179 “The rocketry employed by our Naval Research Laboratory for launching our Vanguard” and all other quotes from October 9, 1957, press conference: Official White House transcript of President Eisenhower’s Press and Radio Conference no. 123. October, 9, 1957, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas, at http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/dl/sputnik/pressconferenceoct91957pg.1pdf.
182 “A fumbling apologia”: http://www.history.nasa.gov/sputnik/chap11.html.
“A Crisis in Leadership”: Time, November 4, 1957.
“be in some kind of partial retirement”: Dickson, Sputnik, p. 120.
“He is not leading the country”: Divine, The Sputnik Challenge, p. 8. mind-numbing sedatives: Dickson, Sputnik, p. 120.
“courageous statesmanship”: Ibid.
“penny-pinching,” “complacency,” “lack of vision,” “incredible stupidity