All The Presidents Men Of Gold (Part 53)

So, we’re off now to see if the MacGregor's blog jives with my recent posts.  Note from their recent December 12 post:

Afterlife Encounters with Martin Caidin

Note from Caidin’s Wiki page:

Martin Caidin (September 14, 1927 – March 24, 1997) 

Caidin's 1964 novel, Marooned, about an American astronaut who becomes stranded in space and NASA's subsequent attempt to rescue him, is based on Project Mercury. The book, adapted into a 1969 movie of the same name,

It’s “audd” that mercury would crop up, given that yesterday I had researched what fish contains less mercury.  So this is “timely”.  Note this next excerpt

•  the actual Plantronics headsets worn by the actors in the spacecraft, as well as authentic replicas of actual facilities such as the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) at Johnson Space Center in Houston

Well, Johnson is a US President:

•  Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973)

Note this next excerpt:

Astronaut Jim Lovell and his wife Marilyn Lovell referred to the film years later in a special interview. Their recollection is shared as a feature on the DVD release of Apollo 13

 James Arthur Lovell Jr. (born March 25, 1928) 

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The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. First conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961. I

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower ( October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) 
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963

Caidin's other books with movie tie-ins include The Final Countdown and novels featuring adventure-archaeologist Indiana Jones.

• Release Date August 1, 1980

Directed by	Don Richie Taylor(Dec 13, 1920 – Dec 29, 1998)

And there you have it... today is Taylors birthday!!  

• Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones (born July 1, 1899)