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This article, written in late 1991, is taken from Chapter Kennedy merely accelerated Eisenhower programs.
V of the Schiller Institutes 173 page Science Policy In this case, greater or lesser represented directly op-
Memo of August 1992, Cold Fusion: Challenge to posing economic policies.
U.S. Policy. EIR published an abridged version of During the mid-1950s, Eisenhower had virtually
that chapter in Volume 21, Number 1, January 1, 1994 mothballed a Huntsville rocket program which could
without the footnotes included in the full Science Policy have put a satellite into orbit by about 1955. Even when
Memo. We have added back in certain footnotes that Khrushchov had succeeded in putting up the Sputnik,
are required to understand some of LaRouches more Eisenhower did not unleash the U.S. Armys Hunts-
technical economic text. We have also added back La- ville, ready and waiting capabilities; only after the hu-
Rouches concluding section, Satan Sells Junk miliating failure of the competing U.S. services
Bonds. The full Memo is available as an eBook Flopnik programs, was Redstone allowed to unfurl
through Google Play or Amazon. its capability. Thus, under Eisenhower, there would not
have been a viable U.S. aerospace program at the be-
The assassination of our President John F. Kennedy ginning of the 1960s, if Moscows Sputnik had not
defined the end of an era in U.S. public life. To locate shamed the Republican administration into tolerating a
the significance of that assassinationand new at- post-1957 spectrum of aerospace-oriented science edu-
tempts against Frances President de Gaulle during the cation and cohering projects and programs.
same period, and the shifting of Germanys Chancellor It is necessary, to put the details into a proper his-
Konrad Adenauerwe should first examine the eco- torical context, to note the points of similarity among
nomic follies of the preceding Truman and Eisenhower the recovery measures of President Kennedy, and the
administrations. philosophy of practice of such European leaders as
Kennedys administration launched a vigorous eco- President Charles de Gaulle of France, Chancellor
nomic recovery from the ruinous doldrums persisting Konrad Adenauer of pre-1964 Germany, or Italys na-
into 1961, in the wake of the deep, 1957-58 recession. tion-building Enrico Mattei. We may, with apologies to
The key features of that successful Kennedy recovery Apollo priest Plutarch, see a parallel in, on the one side,
package included: Kennedys succession to the Eisenhower 1950s, and de
1. The Investment Tax-Credit Tax-Reform. Gaulles superseding of the rotting, decadent French
2. The Moon-Landing Goal. Fourth Republic. Looking beyond 1963, we compare
3. The Acceleration of Infrastructure Building. Kennedys economic successes with President John-
Some apologists for Eisenhowers administration sons disastrous aping of Prime Minister Harold Wil-
have insisted that the aerospace and infrastructure pro- sons Britain, and so on. Such comparisonsfore and
grams of the 1960s were already partially under way aftare required, to put sharply into focus the terrible,
during the post-Sputnik years of the 1950s. It would be downhill trends in U.S. economic policy of practice
misleading to argue, as those apologists have done, that since the assassination of President Kennedy, nearly