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The speech Nixon didn't give

Posted at 10:22 AM on September 28, 2009 by Bob Collins (0 Comments)

The best speech never given? The Web site Gawker thinks so. It's a speech for Richard Nixon written by William Safire, who died on Sunday. Nixon never gave the speech because the first men to land on the moon came home.

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Safire talks about the speech here.

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