kaufmann is author of "ambition, pragmatism and party," a political biography of gerald r. ford. the gerald r. ford museum hosted this program. it's about an hour. >>> good evening. welcome to the ford presidential museum. my name is joel westfall and it is my honor to welcome you here. we are pleased to have you with us for tonight's program. tonight the featured speaker is scott kaufmann, who is a francis marion board of trustees scholar and chair of the history department where he teaches american diplomatic and military history. he earned his doctorate at ohio university. the other ohio university. in 2014, coukaufmann was awarde research travel grant. much of the research from this book he wrote came from the archives and manuscript collections of the ford library in ann arbor and for the assistance of his son steve. he is the co-author of 11 books on u.s. and foreign policy and diplomacy and history of the presidency and first lady. a few of his publications include "project share," "the presidency of james earl carter jr." and "rosland carter: equal partner in the white ho

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is doing but dr kaufmann i wonder if it's perhaps too early to say that because i think the same arguments were made about the shuttle program that it's to be usable that it's going to be so much cheaper than let's say the soviet comparison but dan i got from your own lecture is that shuttles turned out to be much more expansive because all the ground operations and how they were service perhaps not very efficiently i understand that this is a house basics market it's technology at this point of time but can we really rely on those figures to be proven in time well. you're absolutely correct that people are waiting to see can space x. maintain the very aggressive launch scheduled that they have and reuse a lot of these first stage rockets which they've been recovering because that's what the price reduction depends on in in large part so yeah it's still early days but what i can say though is what happened with the shuttle it was a very complex vehicle immunes very capable it was the most versatile spacecraft probably that we'll ever see but it took a tremendous amount of care and maintena

kaufmann is author of "ambition, pragmatism and party," a poli