laid out a moon-shot target?

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`(1) Does "laid out a moon-shot target" refer to "made another plan "go to the moon" (as JKF once did) to conquer cancer"?

(2) Does "gets cut from" mean "gets its place in"?

(3) "someone wrote the speech that the fictional president Josiah Bartlet never got to give"? If the fictional president didn't go to give the speech, why he/someone wrote it?

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Can We Truly "Cure" Cancer?
Pres. Obama laid out a moon-shot target of knocking out cancer, but cancer is not one disease—it’s many
In one well-known episode of The West Wing a line about an astronomical effort to “cure cancer” gets cut from the president’s State of the Union. In real life, however, someone wrote the speech that the fictional president Josiah Bartlet never got to give.

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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-we-truly-cure-cancer/

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@oristarA,

(1) Yes, no, Ora, he's inviting us to initiate a project just as difficult. No offense but your use of the quote is a touch confusing to the Average Joe (me)

(2) I think not. The expr usu means to get removed from

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@oristarA,

1. The moon shot was a concerted effort by the US as a whole to reach the goal of getting to the moon. Moon-shot target means making a similar effort.

2. Gets cut from means to be removed.

3. The West Wing is a TV show about a fictional US President, Josh Barlett. In one episode the fictional President was going to give a speech but before he gave it, the lines about curing cancer were removed, probably for some dramatic effect in the fictional world of that TV show.
Now in real life, a speech was written for and given by a real President that closely mirrors the one that was not given in a fictional show.

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@parados,

Cool.
Thanks.

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