Richard Nixon actually said...

In a way, we are like the people who must have stood on the dock at Palos, Spain, and watched Columbus' ships disappear, believing they were watching the end of a great event, when they were watching the beginning.

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Statement Following the Successful Launch of Apollo 14.

01/30/1971

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