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Apollo Expeditions To The Moon: Chapter 8 Men for the Moon By Robert Sherrod
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Chapter 8 Men for the Moon By Robert Sherrod
On a June day in 1965, following their spectacular Gemini 4 flight,
James
McDivitt and Edward White flew up to Washington from Houston with
their wives
and children. The helicopter bearing them from Andrews Air Force
Base, Md.,
had no sooner settled on the White House lawn than Lady Bird Johnson
said she
wanted them all to spend the night; babysitters would be provided.
The two
astronauts heard the President call them "Christopher Columbuses of
the
twentieth century," and he pronounced the United States now caught
up with the
Russians.
The two astronauts had a parade. They lunched with Vice President ...