Bartlet v Nixon

In Series 3, episode 12 of The West Wing, Jed Bartlett gives his staff a motivational speech:

A president stood up. He said, "We will land a man on the moon in the next ten years." ... and we did it.

What Bartlett doesn't tell them is that President Nixon (for twas indeed he) was subsequently in receipt of a memo from speech-writer William Safire, outlining what he should say if that man did not come back. This surprisingly moving - if retrospectively-fictionalised - document can be read here, thanks to the splendid archival website Letters of Note.

Bugger£&*%(&(£"! UPDATE

And so that we're clear, this oddity is not a result of my choice choice of vocab, nor the use of non-standard lexicon, more broadly. When attempting 'stationery' this afternoon, I was indeed offered the word I was looking for, but the options scroll also included 'stationerw', 'stationerx', 'stationerz' and 'stationer9'.

This last, presumably, is a forthcoming snooze-fest by David Mitchell, set in space/old-town Kyoto.

Famous plays in space

Theatrical classics via McSweeney's Internet Tendency.