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kennedy, representing a new generation, having taken power from dwight david eisenhower, launching aense of a new frontier, announces to the congress, we will go to the moon before the end of the decade. in a movie called "city upon a hill," we have buzz aldrin in the movie, he says, you have to realize, the only person who had gone around the earth at that component was yuri garr garen a russian, and the only american who had been in space had been in suborbital flight. here's the president saying, we will get to the moon inside this decade. and you had to invent everything. yeah, we had all sorts of precursors, we had the v-2 and we had this, and we had that. if you listed every problem they solved by july of 1969, it's one of the great periods of development in human history. and they just did it. so, i'll give you this background for our friends in the news media. twice recently governor romney has made fun of me for having bold ideas in space. has suggested that, you know, the idea of going up to a permanent lunar colony. the weirdest thing i've ever done, because sooner or late

dwight eisenhower, collin powell, stanley mcchrystal and david petraeus the biggest names of the post new celebrity generals. is that on accident or do you think it's on purpose? >> i wonder if president obama did this by design or if it sort of happened this way in his quest to regain control of the pentagon. petraeus has been defracked. he's at cia. general mcchrystal -- who is running the war in afghanistan now? you probably know. but some guy named john allen. none of the other generals -- there's no big-time general that can threaten the president's command. >> are you troubled -- not ambivalence but the way that generals do pr. describe the problems with civil affairs as an institution in the military. and also the sort of weirdness about generals picking up civilian pr pros to essentially as famous people. do you have mixed feelings about that? was i reading that right? >> i think we're using taxpayer dollars to give generals their sort of personal pr team. and what are they doing with the media influence? they are using it to push their own agenda and policy. david petraeus so