Joint Achievements

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/266659/joint-achievements-yuval-levin

May 6, 2011 5:06 P.M.
By Yuval Levin

This headline in the Washington Times gets the Bush/Obama achievement of 
last Sunday just about right, I think:

     Obama got bin Laden just like Nixon reached the moon

The United States did reach the moon under Nixon's leadership, of course, 
though the engineers and astronauts did all the real work and took all the 
real risks; and Nixon deserved credit for sticking with the space program 
even through something of an economic downturn and a period of relative 
public disinterest in its work. And he got some credit, too. But with good 
reason it was not his name but Kennedy's that was associated with the 
broader project that made that achievement possible (a project, by the 
way, that did not end with the moon landing).

Not a perfect comparison of course (Nixon didn't run on ending the Saturn 
V program, for instance), but not a bad one.

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