Wow, this was the first page of the speech William Safire, who died Sunday, wrote for Nixon in the event Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin got stranded on the moon. The last paragraph reads: “In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.”
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William Safire Pareene, Alex. “William Safire’s finest speech.” Quoted by Noah....was...
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mikehudack:adamiss:heyitsnoah:...I want to be like this man.
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mikehudack:adamiss:heyitsnoah:...It’s beautiful. (I wonder if Peggy Noonan thought of this...
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Shades of Reagan’s Noonan-penned Challenger address paraphrasing John Gillespie Magee’s sonnet “High Flight” that Aaron...
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Goddamn, that dude could write. I teared up reading it and they didn’t even die!
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Could you imagine being stranded on the moon? That would suck.
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