If you listen to the tape, you find Kennedy talking about Soviet plans "for the last 2 to 3 years" -

What happened was that in the late 1950's the NSA managed to crack the radio-telephones used by the Moscow leadership -

That's when Eisenhower won the space race - the Saturn 1 was sitting on its pad, (which had been constructed as well) by the time Kennedy entered office - Eisenhower ordered it, based on the intelligence he had in hand at the time.

If you try to date this, you 'll find Eisenhower starting Polaris and some other programs in a hurry - puting in place the US repsonse to the new Soviet weapons his full attention -

By the way, Eisenhower could curse anyone's ears off, if they deserved it -

So to a few of you, collectively, I just want to say, fuck you, you dim witted ass-holes. It has been my pleasure to waste as much of some you people's time as I could - You truly, truly deserved it. And guess what? I'm not done yet, and I am going to grind you into itty-bitty pieces and then shit on them.

As Roosevelt said, tell them what you''re going to do, and then do it.

EP