I didn’t realize that a speech to be given by Richard President Nixon had already been outlined in case the moon landing attempt had failed.
In case the moon landing had failed
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:August 26, 2012
- Post category:American Culture
- Post comments:2 Comments
Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
I’ve got a book titled Almost History: Close Calls, Plan B’s, and Twists of Fate in America’s Past by Roger Bruns that has Nixon’s speech and about a hundred other excerpts grouped under the headings: “Planning for the Worst”, “Forks in the Road”, “Fortuitous Occurrences”, “Close Calls”, “Twists of Irony”, “Plans Thwarted”, “Opportunities Missed; Warnings Unheeded”, “Vagaries of War”, “Code-Breaking Consequences”, “Slippery Truth”, “Urban Legends” and “Lousy Predictions”.
I had forgotten it until I saw this post. Refresher time…
Thanks for the reference, Jim.