That was 1971, that’s about the time Brian, as Command Pilot on Apollo 13 saved the spacecraft and crew.
I felt a shock this morning when I read a column by Maureen Dowd in the NY Times critical of Brian Williams. We all know that NBC News couldn’t give a farthing what WE think about his lying and the impact on what he and their network present as “news” (I haven’t watched network news on a regular basis for 30 years). They DO care what the rest of the “establishment” thinks, however, and this ain’t good news for the career of Brian Williams; once the clouds start gathering at the NY Times, they will have pouring rain at NBC and Brian Williams may be back to serving his Whoppers at Burger King and not on the nightly “news”.
I heard that it was really Brian who invented the polio vaccine...and engineered and built the interstate highway system...and dug the Panama canal with a shovel. Let’s see, there was Paul Bunyan, John Henry, Pecos Bill, Finn MacCool, Chuck Norris and Brian Williams. All the rest sat and drank beer while Brian dug the canal. Oh, yeah, almost forgot, he was King Arthur’s favorite knight also.
It was Brian Williams on board Apollo 13 who said,
“Houston, we have a problem.”