[finder] We must reverse the damage to the timestream!

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In July 1969, William Safire (then a presidential speechwriter) wrote a short speech for Nixon to give if the Apollo astronauts were unable to leave the moon:

"Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace..." (Read more.)

There must be countless other speeches like this, and now I want to read them.

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pretty sure i read an article about such speeches

[(Anonymous)]

and pretty sure it was in the New Yorker. can't find a reference now, but the ol memory says that it cited this Apollo speech, as well as a contrite speech Clinton could have opted to give in lieu of the "I did not have sexual relations with that woman..."

but I think the premise of the article was "wouldn't it be nice if someone wrote a whole book about this history-that-didn't-happen stuff!" a cry for help that continues to go unanswered...

what's this, they're selling a DVD archive of 4000 New Yorker issues? dude.

llisa