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Eisenhower's Disappointment With the Navy
The launch of the Soviets second satellite caused Eisenhower's approval rating to drop 22 percentage points in a Gallup poll. America needed a big win and the Eisenhower administration knew it While von Braun and the Huntsville team waited impatiently in the wings Eisenhower put his hopes in vanguard Imagine is December 6th 1957 You and your husband sit in the living room of your modest house in Huntsville Alabama where at least it used to be nowhere until the United States army moved to town and changed everything.
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