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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.
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