Ike Denies US Lag In Missiles
Ike Denies US Lag In Missiles
Tape is damaged. There are some large video drop out lines in some of the frames. At his White House press conference, President Eisenhower reassures the Nation that Russia's success with the first earth satellite does not indicate a serious lag in American rocket and missile research. Establishing shot - President Eisenhower sitting at a desk putting on his glasses. "Vanguard for the reasons indicated has not had equal priority with ad corded ballistic missile work. Speed of progress in the satellite project can not be taken as an index of our progress in ballistic missile work. Our satellite program has never been conducted as a race with other nations. Rather it has been carefully scheduled as part of the scientific work of the international geophysical year. I consider our country's satellite program to be well designed and properly scheduled to achieve the scientific purposes for which it had been uninitiated. We are, therefore, carrying the program foreword in keeping with our arrangements with the International Scientific community."