Motorcycle Ride Quotes
Johnson at the time was the Senate Majority Leader. The legislation was developed in the office of President Eisenhower’s Scientific Adviser James Killian and was then shortly submitted to Congress without the military having much of a chance to comment. Eisenhower with his suspicion of the military industrial complex already forming, established NASA as a civilian agency with no military control and little military involvement. The legislation moved so quickly that the military industrial complex never able to get organized enough to block or amend the legislation.
