Except: Walter Cronkite, "That Was the Renaissance." 2/24/97.
submitted by Marvin's Underground Evening Lectures
on 12/01/21
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Walter Cronkite visited the LBJ Library on February 24, 1997. "What date is it that we all learn in school and carry with us all the rest of our lives? October 12, 1492, when Columbus landed in America. The date that kids 500 years from now will remember will be July 20, 1969, the day man escaped his environment on earth and landed on a distant orb. It's a date that will forever live in history. They'll say, 'That was the Renaissance. That was the day we emerged from the dark ages. I'm just very glad that thanks to Lyndon Johnson and a few other far-sighted pioneers, it happened on our watch in the 20th century."
