Rocket Motors vs Color TV - Quotations Revisited

What I wrote 2 posts down is the wrong way round. How I turned it over in my head and thus remembered it in that turned left to right way has slipped. In the presidential election TV debate it was not Mr. Nixon speaking to Mr. Kennedy but Senator Kennedy quoting Vice-President Nixon while arguing with him.

Where and when did those sayings occur? The quoting happened during the 4^th Kennedy-Nixon presidential debate between then Vice-President N. and still Senator and later President K. The original assertion by Mr. Nixon happened at an American exposition in Moscow in 1959 in an improvised debate between Mr. Nixon and the Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mr. Nikita Khrushchev.

The correct quotation from the presidential debate is: "Mr. Kennedy: ......The S - I believe the Soviet Union is first in outer space. We have - may have - made more shots but the size of their rocket thrust and all the rest - you yourself said to Khrushchev, "You may be ahead of us in rocket thrust but we're ahead of you in color television" in your famous discussion in the kitchen. I think that color television is not as important as rocket thrust.

I'm glad I double checked that one. It might be less funny this way round but surely is more interesting: The to become first TV oriented president of the USA denying the supreme importance of Color TV while a man the cameras really did never like the least bit

at least simulates to understand or really does understand that C-TV was and is more important than R-T if only because in the minds of most everybody rocket thrust would not mean a thing without being broadcast to them.

The correct quotation of course made me laugh like hell once more just because of the comparison of the number of shots versus their strength.