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[Brian Dunbar]

E.P. Grondine wrote:
>> From: Brian Dunbar <brian.dunbar at liftport.com>
> 
>> Looking at the candidates from Left and Right - Not Too Much.  Clearly
>> we need to identify the winner soon and slip his (or, yes, her) adviser
>> some space Kool-Aid.
>> Brian
> 
> "Space Kool-Aid"?  Get real.
> 
> The President will meet several times with the House and Senate space
> leadership between now and when his sucessor take office, and I think
> that these will be frank and productive exchanges. perhaps they'll sit
> down to a few glasses of Tang.
> 

Private citizens have had influence on space policy before; Jerry
Pournelle and dozens of others formed a citizen's committee in 1981 to
advise President Reagan, for example.

Granted it might have been a one-off circumstance.  More is the pity if so.

-- 
Brian Dunbar
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