KENNEDY: Everything that we do ought to really be tied in to getting onto the moon ahead of the Russians. WEBB: Why can't it be tied to preeminence in space. Which are your own words...KENNEDY: Because, by God, we've been telling everyone we're preeminent in space for five years and nobody believes it because they [USSR] have the booster and the satellite. But I do think we ought to get it, you know, really clear that the policy ought to be that this is the top priority program of the agency and one of the two, except for defense, the top priority of the United States government. I think that that's the position we ought to take.No, this may not change anything about that schedule, but at least we ought to be clear, otherwise we shouldn't be spending this kind of money because I'm not that interested in space.I think it's good. I think we ought to know about it. We're ready to spend reasonable amounts of money, but we're talking about fantastic expenditures which wreck our budget and all these other domestic programs and the only justification for it, in my opinion, to do it is because we hope to beat them and demonstrate that starting behind as we did by a couple of year, by God, we passed 'em.