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Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • then--I think it was Mac McElroy and Wilson--that this would happen. And they were shrugged off and ignored, and no one realized what a traumatic event the launching of that Sputnik was. Of course, it turned out that most of these decisions were made
  • Humphrey; Charles Wilson; Neil McElroy; acceleration of ballistic missile program; Missile Gap controversy; operating procedure of Senate Subcommittee on Preparedness; Eisenhower as a President; importance of LBJ as Majority Leader; role of Weisl in 1960
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Humphrey; Charles Wilson; Neil McElroy; acceleration of ballistic missile program; Missile Gap controversy; operating procedure of Senate Subcommittee on Preparedness; Eisenhower as a President; importance of LBJ as Majority Leader; role of Weisl in 1960