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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
30 May 2023 Acquired Lockheed Martin
“I think, for a lot of people, the stakes, the pressure, and the worry about the Cold War was greater than World War II.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 30 May 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Lockheed Martin
Transcript context
…Yup. Okay, what are the machines that unfold from here? All right. A minute ago, I was talking about the two problems that America and its allies had at the end of World War II. One was the jets. Skunk works addresses that with the P-80 Shooting Star. The other problem is, yeah, we're going to win this war, but there's a whole new war that's just about to start. Yeah. The war we're coming out of is World War II. But of course, the cold war against the Russians is just starting. This is so hard for us to process today. But doing the research, I really felt it. I think, for a lot of people, the stakes, the pressure, and the worry about the Cold War was greater than World War II. Yeah, that's a great point. When the Americans entered World War II, we had reason to believe that we could come in and win. The Cold War, I think to the American psyche, felt very different.…
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