Nov 7 1965
From The Space Library
Brandeis Univ. awarded honorary degrees to 12 persons, including five Nobel laureates, at the dedication of the university's new science center. James E. Webb, recipient of one of the degrees and main speaker at the convocation, described the events leading to his appointment as NASA Administrator: "Near the end of January 1961, my good friend, Terry Wiesner, Mr. Jerome B. Wiesner, MIT] whom you are honoring here today, telephoned to me in Oklahoma to say that Vice President Johnson and President Kennedy wanted me to come to Washington immediately to talk about serving as Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration . . . the following Monday I found myself in President Kennedy's office between him and the Vice President and saying that I thought they needed a scientist or any engineer. 'No,' President Kennedy said, 'the issues involved in the development of space are policy issues-of great national and international significance, You ... have some familiarity with how policies are established and how they are carried out,' At the time, that seemed reasonable... " (Text; AP, NYT, 11/8/65, 52)
Three new rockets described by Tass as "elusive to the enemy's air and space reconnaissance and , constantly ready to strike a crushing nuclear blow at an aggressor" were displayed by the Soviet Union in a parade in Moscow commemorating the 48th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Tass said one of the missiles had warheads that could "deliver their surprise blow on the first or any other orbit around the earth." (Grose, NYT, 11/8/65, 1, 6; Nordlinger, Balt. Sun, 11/8/65, 1)
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