Whenever tragedy strikes, no matter the significance, a reassuring voice is something that helps immensely to those who lost something irreplaceable. The head of the land of liberty has a responsibility to calm the nation, especially for an event an entire country lacked the ability to ignore. Nixon needed a speech that would assure the public that the two traveler’s trip to the moon was not for loss in the worst case scenario. The speech’s effectiveness mostly comes from the emphasis that they made a sacrifice for the greater good. This is seen in lines like,”These two men are laying down their lives in mankind's most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding”. This is the perfect point the speech could have focused on given the
