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Consider these quotes:

When you're finally up at the moon looking back on earth, all those differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend, and you're going to get a concept that maybe this really is one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people.

— Frank Borman, Apollo 8, Newsweek, 23 December 1968

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves a riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold—brothers who know now they are truly brothers.

— Archibald MacLeish, American poet, 'Riders on earth together, Brothers in eternal cold,' front page of the New York Times, Christmas Day, 25 December 1968

Seeing the internationalist and pretty pacifistic standpoint that these astronauts, and presumably many others, developed, how might they get into the Oval office, and what would be the consequences both nationally and internationally if they did so?

And in case you feel the answer might be a little obvious or predictable - in that they would tone down international hostilities for the betterment of all mankind, as they are saying with the above quotes - consider this:

We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.
Buzz Aldrin
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