IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER
Tuesday, July 16, 2019 On July 18 of 1969, the world was waiting anxiously for the Apollo 11 landing on the surface of the Moon. Because they were risking their lives, a speech had to be prepared for President Nixon to read in the event they were stranded on the moon with no way back. The President's speechwriter imagined the worst case scenario as he expertly wrote the following somber memo to President Nixon's Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman.
Its contents: a contingency plan, in the form of a speech to be read out to the nation and the world by Nixon should Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become stranded on the Moon, followed by some brief instructions relating to its broadcast.
Here's the full speech, written by future New York Times columnist William Safire.
The last sentence ... oh man!
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