“I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.”

—  Neil Armstrong

Declining to be interviewed for a magazine article, quoted in "Armstrong's Code" by Kathy Sawyer in Washington Post Magazine (11 July 1999) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/space/armstrong1.htm

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