who complained of a missile gap between the united states and the soviet union
Missile gap
`` I would n't want to be quoted on this ... We 've spent $35 or $40 billion on the space program . And if nothing else had come out of it except the knowledge that we gained from space photography , it would be worth ten times what the whole program has cost . Because tonight we know how many missiles the enemy has and , it turned out , our guesses were way off . We were doing things we did n't need to do . We were building things we did n't need to build . We were harboring fears we did n't need to harbor . ''
`` I would n't want to be quoted on this ... We 've spent $35 or $40 billion on the space program . And if nothing else had come out of it except the knowledge that we gained from space photography , it would be worth ten times what the whole program has cost . Because tonight we know how many missiles the enemy has and , it turned out , our guesses were way off . We were doing things we did n't need to do . We were building things we did n't need to build . We were harboring fears we did n't need to harbor . ''