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Connecting Tony Blair and Buzz Aldrin
Tony Blair
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007
Blair had been a major advocate for a ground offensive, which Bill Clinton was reluctant to do, and ordered that 50,000 soldiers – most of the available British Army – should be made ready for action.
Bill Clinton
However, Democratic senators Joe Lieberman and John Glenn said that the evidence showed that China only targeted congressional elections and not presidential elections.
John Glenn
Buzz Aldrin wrote that Glenn's ''Friendship 7'' flight, "... helped to galvanize the country's will and resolution to surmount significant technical challenges of human spaceflight."
Tony Blair
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007
Generally seen as somewhere between or a mixture of traditional socialist and Conservative ideals.}} He is the only living former Labour leader to have led the party to a general election victory; and one of only two in history to form three majority governments, the other being Harold Wilson.
Harold Wilson
(As with indicative planning, such controls—though now generally out of favour—were widely adopted at that time by governments of different ideological complexions, including the Nixon administration in the United States.) Partly as a result of this reliance, the government tended to find itself repeatedly injected into major industrial disputes, with late-night "beer and sandwiches at Number Ten" an almost routine culmination to such episodes.
Tony Blair
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007
Michael Sheen has portrayed Blair three times, in the films ''The Deal'' (2003), '' The Queen'' (2006), and ''The Special Relationship'' (2009).
Michael Sheen
He was also nominated for a BAFTA as the troubled comic actor Kenneth Williams in BBC Four's 2006 '' Fantabulosa!'', and was nominated for a fourth Olivier Award in 2006 for portraying the broadcaster David Frost in ''Frost/Nixon'', a role he revisited in the 2008 film adaptation of the play.
From 2006 to 2007, Sheen starred as the television broadcaster David Frost in ''Frost/Nixon'' at both the Donmar Warehouse and Gielgud Theatre in London and at the Jacobs Theatre on Broadway.
David Frost
British television host, media personality, journalist, comedian, and writer (1939–2013)
On 20 and 21 July 1969, during the British television Apollo 11 coverage, he presented ''David Frost's Moon Party'' for LWT, a ten-hour discussion and entertainment marathon from LWT's Wembley Studios, on the night Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012)
On July 20, 1969, Armstrong and Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) pilot Buzz Aldrin became the first people to land on the Moon, and the next day they spent two and a half hours outside the Lunar Module ''Eagle'' spacecraft while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Apollo Command Module ''Columbia''.
Tony Blair
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007
Film and theatre director Richard Eyre opined that "Blair had a very considerable skill as a performer".
Richard Eyre
Other than ''Guys and Dolls'', his theatre productions include ''Hamlet'' (twice), with Jonathan Pryce at the Royal Court in 1980 and Daniel Day-Lewis in 1989; ''Richard III'' with Ian McKellen; ''King Lear'' with Ian Holm; Tennessee Williams' ''The Night of the Iguana'' and ''Sweet Bird of Youth''; Eduardo De Filippo's ''Napoli Milionaria'' and ''Le Grande Magia''; Henrik Ibsen's '' John Gabriel Borkman'' with Paul Scofield, Vanessa Redgrave and Eileen Atkins; Ibsen's ''Hedda Gabler'' with Eve Best; and numerous new plays by David Hare, Tom Stoppard, Trevor Griffiths, Howard Brenton, Alan Bennett, Christopher Hampton and Nicholas Wright.
On 14 February 2007, Eyre's production of Nicholas Wright's ''The Reporter'' premiered at the National Theatre, London.
Jonathan Dove
English composer (b1959)
*'' Man on the Moon'' (television opera, about Buzz Aldrin, second man to walk on the moon, and the effects the experience had on him and his marriage) (2006)
