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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Video: 40th anniversary of mankind’s greatest journey

(By Ed Morrissey, Hot Air) - Forty years ago this month, America led mankind on our greatest journey as we flew three men into orbit around the moon, and two of them set foot for the first time on the Moon. After this many years, we live in the knowledge of the American space program and take the moon landings for granted. However, on July 16th, 1969, the world watched in wonder as NASA began the journey of hundreds of thousands of miles with a single mighty step:

2 Comments:

Anonymous Tara said...

I am one of the skeptics... Not so sure we ever made it to the Moon...

Friday, July 17, 2009 10:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Lila said...

I'm actually with Tara on this one. The latest NASA scandal is that they *lost* the clear tapes of the first trip to the moon. How does that happen??? I don't doubt we eventually made it, just not when they claim we did. It was all a race to be #1...

Friday, July 17, 2009 11:27:00 AM  

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