Nostalgia Quote by Ken Hollings

“Eisenhower was certain any war with the Soviet Union would become a nuclear war, and any nuclear war would escalate into a full, all-out…

— Garrett M. Graff

“Dwight Eisenhower had secretly endorsed the blueprints of this multi-genocide machine. He had furthermore demanded, largely for budgetary reasons, that there be no other…

— Daniel Ellsberg

“In this orientation of his concluding strategy he followed ideas that dominated the thinking of the highest American military councils. It reflected an astounding…

— Ladislas Farago

This was the first time we had two ex-Soviet Cosmonauts in Houston. A lot of us, including me, viewed it with some skepticism, because…

— Leroy Chiao

“With the launch of Sputnik 7 in 1957 the Soviet Union had scored the first victory in what would be a three–decade space race.…

— Jeffrey Richelson

“The Soviets were worried that the Americans would attack their "sparkling new Mir space station, ... in a space shuttle, throw out grappling hooks,…

— James Mahaffey

To say that Sputnik gave rise to some concern in the United States would be the understatement of the century. The truth is that…

— John Naughton

To me, the amazing thing is that so much that was science fiction back then, political fiction, today is reality. We have indeed a…

— George Takei

At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I…

— Edgar Mitchell

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

— Stephen Ambrose

Eisenhower was a pretty peace-oriented president. Truman was a pretty hawkish. I would argue, if we had more time, I would argue Truman had…

— Robert Scheer

“fact, there was no such thing at that time—or later—as a "missile gap," a phrase that Democrats and others flung at the GOP during…

— James T. Patterson