Comments on: Reviewing Griffin’s tenure at NASA http://www.spacepolitics.com/2009/05/06/reviewing-griffins-tenure-at-nasa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reviewing-griffins-tenure-at-nasa Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: yg1968 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2009/05/06/reviewing-griffins-tenure-at-nasa/#comment-238192 Fri, 08 May 2009 04:57:31 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=2256#comment-238192 Very interesting report. A must read!

]]> By: Artful Dodger http://www.spacepolitics.com/2009/05/06/reviewing-griffins-tenure-at-nasa/#comment-237810 Wed, 06 May 2009 21:40:46 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=2256#comment-237810 Well one thing is clear from this account – Bush once again reaffirmed his position as the Worst President Ever by putting NASA in its current untenable position of not having enough money to implement the President’s vision!

]]> By: Major Tom http://www.spacepolitics.com/2009/05/06/reviewing-griffins-tenure-at-nasa/#comment-237789 Wed, 06 May 2009 18:13:05 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=2256#comment-237789 Griffin complained about “[OMB] work at the staff level [that] continues out of view of the nation’s elected leadership” in his recent Goddard Dinner speech here:

http://www.spacepolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/griffin-goddard-speech.pdf

But per Mr. Foust’s post above, Griffin earlier told Henry Lambright that “the key protagonists” at a key meeting on the NASA budget back in 2005 “were OMB director Bolton and NASA administrator Griffin. President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Science Advisor John Marburger, [and] a State Department representative”.

So which is it?

Did rogue OMB staff cut NASA’s budget without informing their White House principals?

Or did Griffin just lose fights with White House principals on the NASA budget?

It appears that history is being revised, at least in Griffin’s mind, as time goes by.

FWIW…

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