We Are Not Educated Well Enough To

Dan Rather And I Just Aren't Especially Chummy.

When Moses Was Alive, These Pyramids Were A Thousand Years Old. Here Began The History Of Architecture. Here People Learned To Measure Time By A Calendar, To Plot The Stars By Astronomy And Chart The Earth By Geometry. And Here They Developed That Most Awesome Of All Ideas - The Idea Of Eternity.

We've Got A Great Percentage Of Our Population That, To Our Great Shame, Either Cannot Or, Equally Unfortunate, Will Not Read. And That Portion Of Our Public Is Growing. Those People Are Suckers For The Demagogue.

I've Gone From The Most Trusted Man In America To One Of The Most Debated.

We Are The Lucky Generation. We First Broke Our Earthly Bonds And Ventured Into Space. From Our Descendants- Perches On Other Planets Or Distant Space Cities, They Will Look Back At Our Achievement With Wonder At Our Courage And Audacity And With Appreciation At Our Accomplishments, Which Assured The Future In Which They Live.