I was thinking, when you made Carter the champion of the revitalized program in the 1976 campaign, that you might not be on the same "Carter was an incompetent space-hating peanut farmer!" bandwagon that has been so popular since 1980, never mind Reagan's faults and failings. That you recalled that Carter had after all served as an engineering officer aboard USN nuclear-powered submarines and was not the dumb and Luddite hick his political enemies in the day and ever after liked to paint him as being. But then it turns out the Carter Administration is responsible for a slovenly rush job with the Novas...
