Very interesting story surrounding this if you listen to LBJ phone call recordings. He tells FL politicians "the idea originated in your state." WH said it was Jackie Kennedy's idea. It may have been LBJ's idea which he pressured Jackie Kennedy to agree to.
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The change back to Cape Canaveral was made at Mrs. Kennedy’s request.
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I think request to restore name was primarily based in FL, but you are correct she said it was wrong in the Schlesinger interview. She took the blame for idea of renaming, but some accounts say she was in trauma and remembers little of all that happened that week.
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But it was a brilliant marketing idea for space program as it linked Apollo forever with JFK's name and legacy. And kept NASA budgets from cuts for two more years. Support was waning as early as 1963. JFK had just made overture to USSR for joint mission to save $$.
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And an almost overwhelming number of places had been renamed for Kennedy.
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I take it it is or was at some time a habitat of cañavera plants?
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I can almost see my home.
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I can (almost) see my condo in that picture.
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