| 21. | Don't believe what the candidates tell you on the campaign trail : JFK lied about the missile gap.
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| 22. | Although it had been disproven by the intelligence community, political elites continued to use the missile gap for their own gains.
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| 23. | When Nikita Khrushchev claimed to be building ICBMs " like sausages ", the US feared that a missile gap would form.
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| 24. | Kennedy was perceived among women as the riskier candidate who spoke of a " missile gap " with the Soviet Union.
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| 25. | John Kennedy was elected on fear-mongering claims of a missile gap between us and the Soviets that didn't exist.
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| 26. | One month into the Kennedy administration, however, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara conceded to reporters there really was no missile gap.
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| 27. | Kennedy took advantage of increased Cold War tension by emphasizing a perceived " missile gap " between the United States and Soviet Union.
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| 28. | He regarded it as a false issue, based on the failure of missile gap believers to distinguish between space and military programs.
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| 29. | The Thor missile deployment was an emergency response by the US to what was perceived as a missile gap with the Soviet Union.
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| 30. | The missile gap debate lasted throughout the rest of Eisenhower's term and became a prominent issue in the presidential campaign of 1960.
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