I didn't mean to ignore you as you are special in my mind. Few women dare venture into this realm and the ones that do garner my deepest respects.
Can I give you a hint? That's partially because we're creeped out at being told that we're special in strange men's minds.
More to the point, though, do you have anything substantive to say about my list? You bring up Nixon; okay, you've got me there. I don't remember him, at least not as President. I was born in 1976, making me considerably younger than most of the fine people who've handed you your hat on the forum over the last week or so. My grandmother went to grade school with him, though, and my aunt was alumni director at Whittier College while he was still alive, so I guess that's something.
But okay. You know how Nixon felt about Kennedy, right? Man, there was some deep personal betrayal going there; he'd actually gotten along reasonably well with the family before JFK ran for office. He took a lot of the campaigning personally, and by 1969, he
hated the whole family. Probably Bobby in particular, from what I can tell, because Bobby's criticism was more pointed. Anyway, he wasn't the world's biggest LBJ fan, either, and LBJ was gung ho for NASA in a way that JFK wasn't personally. JFK's interest was a lot more political. The point is, take Nixon. Do you
really think he would've let Apollo stand as their legacy if he could prove that they'd been lying to the American public and the world for the whole build up? There never would have been an Apollo 11 fake under Nixon, because the first thing he would've done was to use it to denigrate JFK and LBJ in the popular view. That's so incredibly basic to his psyche; he wanted to be loved. All the dirty stuff he did to make sure he got reelected was to make himself feel important. Faking Apollo wouldn't have done that; remember that he axed the last few missions as soon as he had wrung all the propaganda value out of them that he thought he could. Revealing a fraud?
That would have resonated with him . . . the same way it clearly does with you.