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The [URL=http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/scienceadvisors/webcasts.html]webcast[/URL] and [URL=http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/scienceadvisors/david_transcript.html]transcript[/URL] of our visit with Ed David, science advisor to Richard Nixon from 1970-1973, are now available online. ... "The interesting aspect of all this was the reason for considering canceling 16 and 17 in the first place. That reason was essentially political. It focused on the timing of those two launches vis-a-vis the 1972 presidential election. Apollo 17 was slated to launch about a month before the election day, early in November, 1972. The big worry by the political forces in the White House was that if there was an accident of Apollo 17, it would bear heavily on the election outcome negatively. I suggested that Apollo be postponed, however, until December after the election, a month after it, and that Apollo 16 was too early to have much influence on the outcome, we did win that day for the final two moon missions."
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