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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider: Paul Ryan's speech to GOP convention
Here are the prepared remarks for GOP Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan, as provided to reporters by the Mitt Romney campaign:
Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored by the support of this convention for vice president of the United States.
I accept the duty to help lead our nation out of a jobs crisis and back to prosperity ? and I know we can do this.
I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old ? and I know that we are ready.?
Our nominee is sure ready. His whole life has prepared him for this moment ? to meet serious challenges in a serious way, without excuses and idle words.? After four years of getting the run-around, America needs a turnaround, and the man for the job is Governor Mitt Romney.
I?m the newcomer to the campaign, so let me share a first impression.? I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.?
They?ve run out of ideas.? Their moment came and went. Fear and division are all they?ve got left.???
With all their attack ads, the president is just throwing away money ? and he?s pretty experienced at that.? You see, some people can?t be dragged down by the usual cheap tactics, because their ability, character, and plain decency are so obvious ? and ladies and gentlemen, that is Mitt Romney.?
For my part, your nomination is an unexpected turn.? It certainly came as news to my family, and I?d like you to meet them: My wife Janna, our daughter Liza, and our boys Charlie and Sam.?
The kids are happy to see their grandma, who lives in Florida.? There she is ? my Mom, Betty.?
My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul.? Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life.? I like to think he?d be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I?m sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.????
I live on the same block where I grew up.? We belong to the same parish where I was baptized.? Janesville is that kind of place.
The people of Wisconsin have been good to me.? I?ve tried to live up to their trust.? And now I ask those hardworking men and women, and millions like them across America, to join our cause and get this country working again.
When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, ?Let?s get this done? ? and that is exactly, what we?re going to do.?
President Barack Obama came to office during an economic crisis, as he has reminded us a time or two.? Those were very tough days, and any fair measure of his record has to take that into account.? My home state voted for President Obama. When he talked about change, many people liked the sound of it, especially in Janesville, where we were about to lose a major factory.?
A lot of guys I went to high school with worked at that GM plant. Right there at that plant, candidate Obama said: ?I believe that if our government is there to support you ? this plant will be here for another hundred years.?? That?s what he said in 2008.
Well, as it turned out, that plant didn?t last another year.? It is locked up and empty to this day.? And that?s how it is in so many towns today, where the recovery that was promised is nowhere in sight.?
Right now, 23 million men and women are struggling to find work.? Twenty-three million people, unemployed or underemployed.? Nearly one in six Americans is living in poverty.? Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life.? Half of them can?t find the work they studied for, or any work at all.?
So here?s the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?
The first troubling sign came with the stimulus.? It was President Obama?s first and best shot at fixing the economy, at a time when he got everything he wanted under one-party rule.? It cost $831 billion ? the largest one-time expenditure ever by our federal government.
It went to companies like Solyndra, with their gold-plated connections, subsidized jobs, and make-believe markets. The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst. You, the working men and women of this country, were cut out of the deal.??
What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus?? More debt.? That money wasn?t just spent and wasted ? it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.????
Maybe the greatest waste of all was time. Here we were, faced with a massive job crisis ? so deep that if everyone out of work stood in single file, that unemployment line would stretch the length of the entire American continent.? You would think that any president, whatever his party, would make job creation, and nothing else, his first order of economic business.??
But this president didn?t do that.? Instead, we got a long, divisive, all-or-nothing attempt to put the federal government in charge of health care.?
Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.??
The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over.? That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.
And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.?
You see, even with all the hidden taxes to pay for the health care takeover, even with new taxes on nearly a million small businesses, the planners in Washington still didn?t have enough money.? They needed more.? They needed hundreds of billions more.? So, they just took it all away from Medicare.? Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama.? An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn?t even ask for.? The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we?re going to stop it.?
In Congress, when they take out the heavy books and wall charts about Medicare, my thoughts go back to a house on Garfield Street in Janesville.? My wonderful grandma, Janet, had Alzheimer?s and moved in with Mom and me.? Though she felt lost at times, we did all the little things that made her feel loved.?
We had help from Medicare, and it was there, just like it?s there for my Mom today.? Medicare is a promise, and we will honor it.? A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom?s generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours.?
So our opponents can consider themselves on notice.? In this election, on this issue, the usual posturing on the Left isn?t going to work.? Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program, and raiding it.? Ladies and gentlemen, our nation needs this debate.? We want this debate.? We will win this debate.???
Obamacare, as much as anything else, explains why a presidency that began with such anticipation now comes to such a disappointing close.?
It began with a financial crisis; it ends with a job crisis.?
It began with a housing crisis they alone didn?t cause; it ends with a housing crisis they didn?t correct.?
It began with a perfect Triple-A credit rating for the United States; it ends with a downgraded America.?
It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new.? Now all that?s left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans that already seem tired, grasping at a moment that has already passed, like a ship trying to sail on yesterday?s wind.
President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made.? He said, well, ?I haven?t communicated enough.?? He said his job is to ?tell a story to the American people? ? as if that?s the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners????
Ladies and gentlemen, these past four years we have suffered no shortage of words in the White House.? What?s missing is leadership in the White House.? And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old.? The man assumed office almost four years ago ? isn?t it about time he assumed responsibility?
In this generation, a defining responsibility of government is to steer our nation clear of a debt crisis while there is still time.? Back in 2008, candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt ?unpatriotic? ? serious talk from what looked to be a serious reformer.?
Yet by his own decisions, President Obama has added more debt than any other president before him, and more than all the troubled governments of Europe combined.? One president, one term, $5 trillion in new debt.
He created a bipartisan debt commission. They came back with an urgent report.? He thanked them, sent them on their way, and then did exactly nothing.
Republicans stepped up with good-faith reforms and solutions equal to the problems.? How did the president respond?? By doing nothing ? nothing except to dodge and demagogue the issue.
So here we are, $16 trillion in debt and still he does nothing.? In Europe, massive debts have put entire governments at risk of collapse, and still he does nothing. And all we have heard from this president and his team are attacks on anyone who dares to point out the obvious.?
They have no answer to this simple reality: We need to stop spending money we don?t have.
My Dad used to say to me: ?Son.? You have a choice: You can be part of the problem, or you can be part of the solution.?? The present administration has made its choices.? And Mitt Romney and I have made ours: Before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation?s economic problems.?
And I?m going to level with you: We don?t have that much time.? But if we are serious, and smart, and we lead, we can do this.
After four years of government trying to divide up the wealth, we will get America creating wealth again. With tax fairness and regulatory reform, we?ll put government back on the side of the men and women who create jobs, and the men and women who need jobs.?
My Mom started a small business, and I?ve seen what it takes. Mom was 50 when my Dad died.? She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison.? She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business.? It wasn?t just a new livelihood.? It was a new life.? And it transformed my Mom from a widow in grief to a small businesswoman whose happiness wasn?t just in the past.? Her work gave her hope.? It made our family proud.? And to this day, my Mom is my role model.
Behind every small business, there?s a story worth knowing.? All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores ? these didn?t come out of nowhere.? A lot of heart goes into each one.? And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place.? Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning.? Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.? After all that work, and in a bad economy, it sure doesn?t help to hear from their president that government gets the credit.? What they deserve to hear is the truth: Yes, you did build that.??
We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years.
In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less.? That is enough.? The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.?
I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms ? the great Jack Kemp.? What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair.?? We need that same optimism right now.?
And in our dealings with other nations, a Romney-Ryan administration will speak with confidence and clarity.? Wherever men and women rise up for their own freedom, they will know that the American president is on their side.? Instead of managing American decline, leaving allies to doubt us and adversaries to test us, we will act in the conviction that the United States is still the greatest force for peace and liberty that this world has ever known.
President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record.? But we are four years into this presidency. The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it.?
College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.? Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now.? And I hope you understand this too, if you?re feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.
None of us have to settle for the best this administration offers ? a dull, adventureless journey from one entitlement to the next, a government-planned life, a country where everything is free but us.?
Listen to the way we?re spoken to already, as if everyone is stuck in some class or station in life, victims of circumstances beyond our control, with government there to help us cope with our fate.?
It?s the exact opposite of everything I learned growing up in Wisconsin, or at college in Ohio.? When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life.? I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.? That?s what we do in this country.? That?s the American Dream.? That?s freedom, and I?ll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.?
By themselves, the failures of one administration are not a mandate for a new administration.? A challenger must stand on his own merits.? He must be ready and worthy to serve in the office of president.?
We?re a full generation apart, Governor Romney and I.? And, in some ways, we?re a little different.? There are the songs on his iPod, which I?ve heard on the campaign bus and on many hotel elevators. He actually urged me to play some of these songs at campaign rallies.? I said, I hope it?s not a deal-breaker Mitt, but my playlist starts with AC/DC, and ends with Zeppelin.
A generation apart. That makes us different, but not in any of the things that matter.? Mitt Romney and I both grew up in the heartland, and we know what places like Wisconsin and Michigan look like when times are good, when people are working, when families are doing more than just getting by.? And we both know it can be that way again.?
We?ve had very different careers ? mine mainly in public service, his mostly in the private sector. He helped start businesses and turn around failing ones. By the way, being successful in business ? that?s a good thing.
Mitt has not only succeeded, but succeeded where others could not. ?He turned around the Olympics at a time when a great institution was collapsing under the weight of bad management, overspending, and corruption ? sounds familiar, doesn?t it??
He was the Republican governor of a state where almost nine in ten legislators are Democrats, and yet he balanced the budget without raising taxes. Unemployment went down, household incomes went up, and Massachusetts, under Mitt Romney, saw its credit rating upgraded.
Mitt and I also go to different churches.? But in any church, the best kind of preaching is done by example.? And I?ve been watching that example.? The man who will accept your nomination tomorrow is prayerful and faithful and honorable. Not only a defender of marriage, he offers an example of marriage at its best. Not only a fine businessman, he?s a fine man, worthy of leading this optimistic and good-hearted country.?
?Our different faiths come together in the same moral creed.? We believe that in every life there is goodness; for every person, there is hope.? Each one of us was made for a reason, bearing the image and likeness of the Lord of Life.?
We have responsibilities, one to another ? we do not each face the world alone.? And the greatest of all responsibilities, is that of the strong to protect the weak.? The truest measure of any society is how it treats those who cannot defend or care for themselves.
Each of these great moral ideas is essential to democratic government ? to the rule of law, to life in a humane and decent society.? They are the moral creed of our country, as powerful in our time, as on the day of America?s founding.? They are self-evident and unchanging, and sometimes, even presidents need reminding, that our rights come from nature and God, not from government.?
The founding generation secured those rights for us, and in every generation since, the best among us have defended our freedoms.? They are protecting us right now.? We honor them and all our veterans, and we thank them.
The right that makes all the difference now, is the right to choose our own leaders.? And you are entitled to the clearest possible choice, because the time for choosing is drawing near.? So here is our pledge.
We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.?
We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.?
We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.
The work ahead will be hard.? These times demand the best of us ? all of us, but we can do this.? Together, we can do this.
We can get this country working again.? We can get this economy growing again.? We can make the safety net safe again.? We can do this.?
Whatever your political party, let?s come together for the sake of our country.? Join Mitt Romney and me.? Let?s give this effort everything we have.? Let?s see this through all the way.? Let?s get this done.?
Thank you, and God bless.
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GOP senator says Obama needs China to finance debt
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ? A Republican senator says President Barack Obama hasn't done anything about China's unfair trade practices because he needs China to keep buying the bonds that finance the growing U.S. deficit.
Speaking Wednesday at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio said the United States is as beholden to China for purchasing bonds as it is to the Middle East for oil. Portman says that will end if Mitt Romney is elected president.
China holds nearly $1.2 trillion in U.S. debt.
Portman was on Romney's short-list of vice presidential candidates. He served as U.S. trade representative and White House budget director in George W. Bush's administration.
Romney has accused China of manipulating its currency and blocking access to its markets.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gop-senator-says-obama-needs-china-finance-debt-010623954--election.html
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Playoff surprises are looming
As best teams ? Yanks, Rangers, Nats, Reds ? nurse issues, the fall will be wild
APThe Rangers and Yankees will enter the AL playoffs as the teams to beat, writes Tony DeMarco. But neither are locks to reach the ALCS.
ASK THE MLB EXPERT
By Tony DeMarco
NBCSports.com contributor
updated 11:22 a.m. ET Aug. 29, 2012
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Baseball Expert Tony DeMarco has been covering the big leagues since 1987, and been casting Hall of Fame ballots for the last 15 years. He answers questions weekly here:
Q: With there being an extra wild-card spot this year, there are a lot of teams in contention for the playoffs. But in your opinion, which team is best suited to make a long run once in the postseason?
? Bobby Franklin, New York
A: Every contender ? even the regular-season top four of the Rangers, Yankees, Reds and Nationals ? have their share of concerns and potential trouble spots. That's what will make this postseason so tough to predict ? and likelier for a relatively unexpected World Series winner to emerge.
With talent levels for the top eight or so teams being fairly equal, it will come down to which teams are playing best in October: whose stars come through with clutch performances that win games, whose starting pitching performs best, whose closer is most dominant, whose roster is healthiest and operating on all cylinders. And at this point, it's really a guessing game.
The Rangers will go in as the AL favorites, with their offense, power bullpen and the motivation and focus sparked by consecutive World Series losses. Their rotation lacks that dominant guy, however, as keep in mind they have lost Cliff Lee, C.J. Wilson and Colby Lewis from their last two postseason rotations.
The Yankees have some health concerns right now, and those will need to be cleared up by October. Even so, you have to wonder about their No. 3-4 post-season starters, and as good a season as Rafael Soriano has had, he isn't Mariano Rivera.
Neither the Rays or Tigers would be playoff teams if the season had ended Monday, but either could be the team that gets hot. The Rays' chances are tied to their four-man rotation and lights-out, crooked-capped closer Fernando Rodney. With just enough offense, they are a solid sleeper pick.
The Tigers have underachieved to this point, and are in a fight for the playoff-qualifying lives. But there is great star power on Jim Leyland's squad, and great players can rise to the occasion in October.
I'm not picking the Nationals to win a pennant without Stephen Strasburg, so that leaves the Reds as NL favorites. They've proven they can win without Joey Votto, adding to that "this-is-our-year" feeling. The offense can be spotty at times, but there's enough of it, especially if the bullpen keeps shortening games. But Bronson Arroyo and Homer Bailey or Mike Leake will have to step up.The Giants and Cardinals make for a dangerous next rung of top NL contenders. Everybody respects the Giants' pitching and they're playing with an edge in the wake of Melky Cabrera's suspension and all the hype surrounding the new Dodgers.
The Cardinals clearly were the NL's best team through mid-May before hitting an extended stretch of mediocrity, still have the league's most-dangerous lineup, and their pitching staff is coming together ? the exception being Lance Lynn.
For all the star power the Dodgers have added, it's very late to be expecting everything to come together so quickly, and as Don Mattingly said the other day, it likely will come down to their pitching. And there isn't enough beyond Clayton Kershaw.
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MIAMI (AP) - Bryce Harper homered twice for the first time in his career and the first-place Washington Nationals snapped a five-game losing streak by beating the Miami Marlins 8-4 Wednesday night.
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Hire a Denver Attorney Who Can Explain Your Confusing Divorce to ...
Hire a Denver Attorney Who Can Explain Your Confusing Divorce to You
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Excerpt from Eugene Peterson's Tell It Slant (Coming Soon in ...
Tell It Slant
(Coming soon in paperback.)
In?Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers?(available for the first time in paperback in just a few weeks), Eugene Peterson?explores how Jesus used language and beautifully points to Jesus? engaging, relational way of speaking as a model for us today.
In this excerpt from the book?s introduction, Peterson reminds us that?we use the same language to talk to each other and to talk to God ? and that our everyday speech can be just as spiritually significant as the words and prayers we hear and speak in church.
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Language and the way we use it in the Christian community are the focus of this conversation on the spirituality of language. Language, all of it ? every vowel, every consonant ? is a gift of God. God uses language to create and command us; we use language to confess our sins and sing praises to God. We use this very same language getting to know one another, buying and selling, writing letters and reading books. We use the same words in talking to one another that we use when we?re talking to God: same nouns and verbs, same adverbs and adjectives, same conjunctions and interjections, same prepositions and pronouns. There is no ?Holy Ghost? language used for matters of God and salvation and then a separate secular language for buying cabbages and cars. ?Give us this day our daily bread? and ?pass the potatoes? come out of the same language pool.
There is a lot more to speaking than getting the right words and pronouncing them correctly. Who we are and the way we speak make all the difference. We can sure think of enough creative ways to use words badly: we can blaspheme and curse, we can lie and deceive, we can bully and abuse, we can gossip and debunk. Or not. Every time we open our mouths, whether in conversation with one another or in prayer to our Lord, Christian truth and community are on the line. And so, high on the agenda of the Christian community in every generation is that we diligently develop a voice that speaks in consonance with the God who speaks, that we speak in such a way that truth is told and community is formed, and that we pray to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and not to some golden calf idol that has been fashioned by one of the numerous descendants of Aaron.
Preachers and teachers hold prominent positions in the Christian community in the use of language. Pulpit and lectern provide places of authority and influence in sanctuaries and classrooms that require careful, prayerful Christ-honoring speech in every sermon and lecture. But I am particularly interested here in the more or less out-of-the-way, unstudied, and everyday conversations that take place in kitchens and family rooms, having coffee with a friend, making small talk in a parking lot, or engaging in an intense, private discussion that could make or break a relationship. I want to attend to the words we listen to and speak as we go about the ordinary affairs of work and family, friends and neighbors, and provide them with an equivalent dignity alongside the language that we commonly associate with the so-called ?things of God.?
For the most part this is not high-profile language, not the language we use when we want to get something done or master a complex subject. It is language used when we are not dealing with one another in our social roles or our assigned functions. It savors subtleties. It relishes ambiguities. It consists in large part, using T. S. Eliot?s phrase, in ?hints followed by guesses.? Emily Dickinson gives me my text:
?Tell all the Truth but tell it slant ? . . . ?
Eugene H. Peterson
I want to tear down the fences that we have erected between language that deals with God and language that deals with the people around us. It is, after all, the same language. The same God we address in prayer and proclaim in sermons is also deeply, eternally involved in the men and women we engage in conversation, whether casually or intentionally. But not always obviously. God?s words are not always prefaced by ?Thus says the Lord.? It takes time and attentiveness to make connections between the said and the unsaid, the direct and the indirect, the straightforward and the oblique. There are many occasions when the imperious or blunt approach honors neither our God nor our neighbor. Unlike raw facts, truth, especially personal truth, requires the cultivation of unhurried intimacies. Dickinson?s ?slant? and ?gradually? are ways of getting past preconceptions, prejudices, defenses, stereotypes, and fact-dominated literalism, all of which prevent relational receptivity to the language of the other: the Other.
God does not compartmentalize our lives into religious and secular. Why do we? I want to insist on a continuity of language between the words we use in Bible studies and the words we use when we?re out fishing for rainbow trout. I want to cultivate a sense of continuity between the prayers we offer to God and the conversations we have with the people we speak to and who speak to us. I want to nurture an awareness of the sanctity of words, the holy gift of language, regardless of whether it is directed vertically or horizontally. Just as Jesus did.
Click here to order the paperback edition of ?Eugene H. Peterson?s Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers?(coming soon), the hardcover edition (available now), or the companion?study guide for the book.?
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Clinton's Asia tour: Is North Korea capable of reform?
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This undated photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on July 27, 2012 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and his wife Ri Sol-Ju reacting after watching a performance by members of the Korean People's Internal Security Forces (KPISF) at Ponghwa Art Theatre in Pyongyang.
By Eric Baculinao, NBC News
BEIJING -- Change in North Korea, and its potential impact on American interests in the Asia-Pacific, is likely to be on the agenda when US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets Chinese leaders next month on her region-wide tour.
Is the hermit kingdom, with its nuclear weapons program and a ?military-first policy? that prioritizes its 1.2 million-strong army, capable of social reform?
Or is the latest staged-managed imagery from Pyongyang?of a Swiss-educated young leader displaying a stylish wife, giving thumbs up to pop music and promising that the belt-tightening days are over?a sign of a new beginning for the impoverished and isolated nation?
The buzz about North Korea?s tantalizing hints of change has gained currency with the recent visit to China of Jang Song Thaek, the powerful uncle of the new North Korean leader Kim Jung Un, followed by reports that Kim himself is seeking to visit China next month.
China vowed greater support and investment in North Korea?s languishing China-style special economic zones, and urged Pyongyang to let ?market? principles guide its moribund economy.
But while signs are pointing to change in Pyongyang, North Korean propaganda was denouncing as ?hallucination? any talk of reform, denying that the new leadership is breaking with the past.
Ezra Klein describes the mystery surrounding a woman seen accompanying North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and new reports that she is his wife, meaning the dictator is no longer on the singles market.
Authoritarian dictatorship
As a neighbor and ally, China is sensitive to any shift in Pyongyang?s policy directions that could impact China?s interests.? While Beijing provides Pyongyang with massive aid to prevent regime collapse that could cause regional instability, China is opposed to North Korea?s nuclear ambitions.
?I think it?s not possible for Pyongyang to sacrifice its military-first and nuclear arms policies, and that in turn will limit all possibilities for reform,? observed Zhang Liangui, China?s top scholar on North Korea who graduated from Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang.
?I am not optimistic about reform because Kim Jun Un alone cannot decide, it will be decided by North Korea?s political system which prioritizes the army,? said Zhang, a professor of international strategic research at China?s central school for training communist party officials.
?There is low probability of significant change,? said Daniel Pinkston, Seoul-based senior analyst of the International Crisis Group.
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A file picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on December 28, 2011 shows Kim Jong-Un and his powerful uncle, Jang Song-Thaek, at the funeral of late leader Kim Jong-Il.
North Korea?s system is ?structurally set up as an authoritarian dictatorship?as long as the Kim family is in power it will be extraordinarily difficult to renounce the legacy of his father and grandfather,? Pinkston told NBC News, explaining his group?s latest report analyzing the barriers to reform in North Korea?s militarized society.
Ezra Klein describes the mystery surrounding a woman seen accompanying North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and new reports that she is his wife, meaning the dictator is no longer on the singles market.
Preventing a Gadhafi-like fate
?As long as the Kim family regime is in power, they will not surrender nuclear weapons.? But I do not see why this is an obstacle for reforms,? argued Andrei Lankov, a Seoul-based Russian scholar on North Korea who also attended Kim Il Sung University.
?They will keep their nuclear devices, five or ten of them, for the deterrence purposes, just to make sure that they will not suffer the sorry state of Colonel [Moammar] Gadhaf i?while reforming the country if they consider that reform suit their interest,? he told NBC News.
Lankov noted, however, the??destabilizing? effects of reform. ?Sadly, the conservatives might be correct and I will not be surprised if the reforms will bring about a sudden collapse of the North Korean state,? he said, alluding to the examples of East Germany and Tunisia.
?It is still possible to take steps toward the market without giving up the nuclear program, though you would have to limit military spending,? according to Daniel Sneider, associate director for research at the Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University.
But for Sneider, one issue is the challenge posed to Pyongyang?s legitimacy by South Korea. North Korea used to be more prosperous than the South due to pampering by China and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War.? But now, the North?s economy is barely three percent of the South?s, with half the population. The majority of North Koreans suffer from food shortages, according to UN reports.
?In the South, there is a wonderful example of a highly successful Korean market economy?the North claims to be morally superior and a purer Korean state, unpolluted by Western capitalism.? If they go down the road of market reform, that undermines a central plank of North Korean ideology,? Sneider said.
?The path of reform will be chosen by North Korea but China will certainly provide help,? said Lu Chao, director of North Korea Studies at the Academy of Social Sciences in Liaoning province, which shares a long border with North Korea.
Limited risk
Lu, who frequently meets with North Korean officials and businessmen from across the border, detects Pyongyang?s new focus on the economy.
?Kim Jung Un is focused on improving the quality of life, this can be seen in his visits to parks and artistic performances, in contrast with his father who prioritized the military,? Lu told NBC News.
At least 169 deaths have been reported in North Korea during the past two months as flooding continues to cover thousands of acres of farmland. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
?Some reforms are going on in the country, especially in agriculture,? he added, noting that farming reforms will pose ?limited risks? to the regime.
For the International Crisis Group?s Pinkston, US policy should remain ?deterrence and containment while being observant?.??
?The US should monitor, bilaterally and multilaterally, the situation in North Korea, maintain a strong deterrence and containment posture, but be willing, when the opportunity presents itself,? to engage North Korea if it changes its policy directions,? Pinkston said.
Clinton is scheduled to visit China Sept 4-5, before becoming the?highest-ranking US official to visit East Timor, which gained independence from Indonesia in 2002.
She will later visit the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Vladivostok, eastern Russia.
NBC researchers Tianzhou Ye and Lorraine Liu contributed to this report.?
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?A Tear for Mother? ? Conservative Christian Bible Study Materials
By?P.J. Casebolt
?And Adam called his wife?s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living? (Gen. 3:20). By a special act of creation, God created woman, mothers, and motherhood. I would like to wield the pen and strike a blow for motherhood at least one more time before the term becomes completely meaningless, or even extinct. Mothers are already an endangered species in our modern society, and if some continue to have their way with respect to abortion and the deterioration of family values, the extinction of motherhood may become more fact than fable.
All are agreed that many of our social and moral problems are a direct result of deterioration in the home. Yet, not enough are willing to do anything about the problem. According to the latest statistics, well over half of all mothers work outside the home. And, the time and emphasis spent on being a mother suffers accordingly. Again, if some feminists and like-minded ?liberators? of womanhood and motherhood have their way, all mothers will be out of the home and the children left over from the effects of abortion will all be turned over to surrogate day-care centers which will be partially or completely supported by taxes. Even those of us who are trying to salvage the institution of motherhood will be forced to support those practices which are destroying the very thing we are striving to save.
As in most matters, there are exceptions to the general rule. We recognize situations which are affected by widowhood, shiftless fathers and husbands, childless couples, or even homes where the children are grown and gone. But the exception is supposed to prove the rule, not become the rule.
A lot of emphasis is being made on the matter of ?pro-choice? and a woman?s right to fulfill her own ambitions. Should not at least equal rights be accorded those women who choose to remain in the home and make motherhood their number one priority in life? These latter are fast becoming the minority, and are beginning to be regarded as second-class women. I believe that we should take the time in our speech, and space in our writing, to commend every woman who wants to devote all of her time to being a woman, a wife, and a mother.
The Bible is filled with examples of ?mothers of Israel? who emulate and exonerate the institution of motherhood. One mother?s love for her child was so strong that she was willing to let an impostor have her child rather than see the child put to death (1 Kings 3:26, 27). But, another mother encouraged her daughter to dance before a king and to have John the Baptist?s head cut off (Matt. 14:3-11). We have all seen children creating havoc in stores, church buildings, and other public places while their mothers were either nowhere to be seen or were totally oblivious to the actions or safety of their own offspring. News headlines and police blotters are filled with accounts of child neglect, and even abuse and murder. But I noticed something last summer that reaffirmed my faith in mothers and motherhood.
Several mothers were together while their offspring played nearby. It was difficult to tell which offspring be- longed to which mother, but all of the mothers seemed to be keeping an eye out for the little ones. If a problem seemed to be developing, one of the mothers would go check it out. If some bully began to mistreat his or her playmates, a mother would discipline the rebel. On one occasion, the father intervened in a squabble, and sent one of the big bullies sailing with its tail tucked between its legs. I mean, literally. You see, I live in the country, and a herd of cows and calves graze, feed, sleep, and play in the field by our house. And as J.D. Tant used to say, ?Before God,? these cows acted more like mothers than do some mothers of the human race. I noticed that some mothers saw to it that their calves were fed and cared for even before the mother?s own personal ambitions were satisfied. My heart took hope. If all else fails, maybe we can turn to the beasts of the field and the fowl of the air for some basic lessons in mother- hood. Once we learn the basics, we can begin reading our Bibles instead of reading after psychologists intoxicated with human wisdom, and listen to the Lord instead of some self-styled liberator who only wants to bring the women and children of our country into bondage of the flesh.
I wrote the following poem in 1988 when I was in a meeting at Monticello, Florida. The sister in whose home we were staying received a telephone message one day that her mother had died. I noticed tears in her eyes when she hung up the phone. I can?t stop tears for mothers, but maybe I can help fellow pilgrims see through them more clearly.
A Tear for Mother
There are, it seems, so many kinds of tears
Those born of pain, of sadness, and tears of joy as well;
Some kind will follow us all through our years
But we?ll grow wiser since that first, lone teardrop fell.
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We have a different feeling in our heart
For father, sister, brother, children, loved ones all;
It?s there when first we meet and when we part,
Renewed by mem?ries, songs, by pictures on the wall.
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For mothers, too, we have a special love
Because the love they give is special, diff?rent still;
It?s gentle like the call of mourning dove,
And melancholy like the woodland whip-poor-will.
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So, mothers, be a mother while you may,
For no one else can fill your place, Be so dear;
And when it comes your time to go away,
Somewhere there?ll drop for you a special tear.
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Egypt pulls back some Sinai tanks
EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) ? Egypt on Wednesday withdrew some of the tanks it deployed near the Israeli and Gaza borders as part of a military operation against militants in the Sinai Peninsula.
The tank deployment earlier this month had brought complaints from Israel since the peace treaty between the two countries bans such heavy weapons from a zone along the border. Israel had quietly agreed to Egypt sending thousands of troops into the area ? also barred under the treaty ? to fight militants, but it had not consented to the tanks.
Nearly a dozen tanks that had been stationed near the Rafah border crossing into Gaza were seen heading out of northern Sinai on Wednesday afternoon. Military officials told The Associated Press they were returning to their base in Ismailiya, just on the other side of the Suez Canal from Sinai.
With the withdrawal, nearly 40 tanks remain in the border zone. The officials gave no reason for the pullback. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the deployment.
The head of security in Port Said, Sameh Radwan, said security was being reinforced along the Suez Canal after threats the strategic waterway could be targeted in retaliation for the offensive, according to the state news agency MENA. An adviser to the Suez Canal authorities, Mahmoud Abdel-Wahab, played down talk of specific threats, saying it was natural reinforcements would be deployed on the canal when a military operation was ongoing nearby.
Egypt's military on Wednesday said it is pushing ahead with its offensive against Islamic militants in the volatile peninsula, after reports of talks of a truce. The offensive was triggered by a brazen attack on Aug. 5 near Egypt's border with Gaza and Israel, when masked militants killed 16 Egyptian soldiers before crossing into Israel, where they were shot dead.
Ultraconservative Salafi Muslims and other radical groups have said they reached an arrangement with mediators from the government by which the offensive would be suspended to avoid an escalation by militants, who are thought to be extremist jihadis, some inspired by al-Qaida. The government has not commented on any attempts to reach a deal.
The state news agency MENA quoted an unidentified military official saying the offensive is still in progress and that 11 militants have been killed so far.
"We will continue to chase the terrorists," the official said, according to MENA.
On Wednesday, explosives were found inside a bag and planted next to Sinai University in the northern city of el-Arish near Egypt's border with Gaza and Israel, according to a security official.
Bomb experts defused the device, which included land mines and gasoline and was wired to explode.
He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media.
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Once driver of 'Cain Train,' Herman Cain now on board for Romney
One-time GOP primary front-runner Herman Cain, who exited the race amid spiraling allegations of sexual infidelity, hears no call from the campaign trail after his failure to make it all the way to this week's Republican convention in Tampa, Fla., he said today.
"No, I don't [miss campaigning,]" Cain, a conservative radio host and former pizza-chain CEO who momentarily led the pack of GOP candidates before dropping out in December, told Terry Moran of "Nightline."
"It's always bittersweet when you compete in anything, but I said from the very beginning, whoever gets the nomination, I am going to support them fully," Cain said on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla.
Cain, who briefly tapped into a party then frustrated with Mitt Romney, was not invited to speak at the convention, a snub he says doesn't offend him.
"I'm not going to be participating with the formal convention program, but it's not about me," he told Moran. "It's about giving exposure to some young stars who are running for office."
Cain's road to endorsing Romney, set to be nominated later this week, was a long one. After dropping out, Cain, 66, initially endorsed "the American people," before throwing his support more directly to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. It was not until May that Cain endorsed Romney.
"I said some tough things about [Romney] and I challenged him on his 59-point economic plan; he's now reduced the number of points in his economic plan so he's listening," Cain said of Romney, morphing an attack line he once used on the stump.
"He didn't get to nine yet, but he's moving in the right direction," the former Godfather's Pizza CEO quipped.
Cain's support skyrocketed when he introduced the catchy "9-9-9" tax plan that would have replaced most taxes with a 9 percent flat tax on business transactions, income and sales.
Cain praised Romney's pick of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate. "I think it has injected some enthusiasm," he said of the decision.
Cain, the only black GOP candidate, said that despite the lack of black delegates on the convention floor, there were plenty of black conservatives in the Republican Party.
"I happen to believe that the party has more traction with black voters than meets the eye," he said.
"It takes a lot of time and personal commitment to try and become a delegate with either the Republican Party or the Democrat Party. It takes a lot of time and a lot of resources. And so as a result, you don't see as many black Americans," he said.
Cain said it was the Democrats, not the Republicans, who had belittled the concerns of black Americans and were playing into the country's basest fears about race.
"The Democrats are the ones that are making white people feel anxious about the race card in America. The Democrats are desperate. And when they're desperate, they go back to their old playbook. Class warfare. The race card," Cain told Moran.
Cain, who was accused at the time of his campaign of running just to sell books and promote his radio show, said he is still angry about the allegations of infidelity and impropriety leveled at him.
"I'm still a little angry about it. I'll be perfectly honest with you; I am human," he said, adding that he believed the attacks were coordinated and politically motivated.
"It's just those that were behind it were very good at covering up their fingerprints, such that it's difficult to determine exactly," he said. "But it was absolutely politically motivated."
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13-inch Mac Book Pro rumored to be going Retina as soon as this fall
Following the introduction of the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro at WWDC 2012, it should come as no surprise that more of Apple's Mac line will be making the @2x transition. The question is when. And the answer, at least for the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, could be as early as this fall according to what NPD DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim told CNET:
Production has begun of a 2,560-by-1,600 pixel density display that will land on a 13.3-inch MacBook Pro, NPD DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim told CNET.
"The supply chain indications are that it's for a MacBook Pro 13.3 -- not a MacBook Air," said Shim. Displays are being made by Samsung, LGD, and Sharp, he said.
Larger desktop displays like the iMac and 27-inch Thunderbolt are challenged by cost and yield rate. Smaller laptop displays are challenged by battery life and GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) power. 2560x1600 is less than the current 15.4"-inch Retina MacBook Pro's 2880x1800 but not by much, and would clearly look spectacular at 13.3-inches. However, the current Retina MacBook Pro drives its GPU flat out to run that display. And unlike the 15-inch MacBooks, however, the 13-inch line currently only has the built in Intel HD Graphics 4000, and not the additional, discreet NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of GDDR5 memory. In addition to battery enough to support a 2560x1600, would Apple need to add a discreet GPU as well? How would those twin concerns, along with the thinner, optical drive-free design resolve themselves at 13-inches?
Whether this specific report is accurate or not is hard to say. It is highly detailed, and Apple is absolutely working on more Retina Macs, so it'll be interesting to see how the timeline plays out. The iPhone went Retina at 640x960 in 2010, and the iPod touch only a few months later. It took the iPad until 2012 to go Retina at 1356x2048, and the first Mac a few months more at 2560x1600.
We're still on the first generation, bleeding edge of Retina Macs, though. The 15-inch MacBook Pro is so outstanding, however, that growing pains, if any, are well worth it.
Anyone been waiting on a smaller, likely cheaper point of entry for a Retina MacBook Pro? If -- and it's still an if -- Apple does have a 13-inch MacBook Pro ready to ship this fall, will you be ready to pull the trigger?
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Tropical Storm Isaac grounds hundreds of flights
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Airlines cancelled hundreds of flights as Tropical Storm Isaac lashed southeastern Florida Sunday, with service not expected to resume fully until late Monday.
The airports in Miami and Fort Lauderdale were hit the hardest, cancelling 589 flights ? the vast majority of the 742 U.S. flights grounded overall because of the storm as of Sunday afternoon, according to the flight-tracking service FlightAware.
American Airlines and its American Eagle affiliate cancelled 486 flights. The last American flight left Miami at noon Sunday. The airline expects to be fully operational out of Miami by noon Eastern time on Monday, said airline spokesman Matt Miller. American runs a hub in Miami, a jumping-off point for flights to the Caribbean and Latin America.
Overall, airlines have cancelled 184 flights for Monday but expect to be operating normally by late Monday, according to FlightAware.
Isaac, already carrying winds of more than 60 miles an hour, was expected to cross the Keys by late afternoon. The storm will likely pick up strength from the warm, open waters of the Gulf of Mexico and strike as a dangerous Category 2 hurricane somewhere between New Orleans and the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday, the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency ahead of Isaac late Sunday and urged voluntary evacuations for coastal parishes in the state.
Inside the American Airlines terminal in Miami, travelers craned for a look out of one of the doors as Isaac pelted the airport with strong rain and wind.
At Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, the check-in line at the Southwest Airlines counter was completely empty at 7 a.m. Typically at that time on a Sunday the area is jammed, mainly by people leaving from vacations and cruises.
Delta Air Lines dropped three round-trip flights between its Atlanta hub and hard-hit Key West. "No others as of yet," Delta spokesman Morgan Durrant said by email Sunday afternoon. "We anticipate running a full schedule with the exception of Key West."
United Airlines and its United Express affiliate dropped 26 flights in the path of the storm.
Tampa, where the Republican party postponed the start of its political convention because of bad weather, has largely been spared flight cancellations: Just 26 inbound and outbound Tampa flights had been cancelled Sunday and four Monday, according to FlightAware.
The airlines are waiving fees for travelers who have to change their plans because of Isaac.
Amtrak on Saturday suspended part of its Silver Service line between Miami and Orlando through Monday "as a precaution against potential damaging winds and flooding."
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Associated Press writer Tim Reynolds in Miami contributed to this report.
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To hero-astronaut Armstrong, moonwalk 'just' a job
This July 20, 1969 file photo provided by NASA shows Neil Armstrong. The family of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, says he has died at age 82. A statement from the family says he died following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures. It doesn't say where he died. Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon July 20, 1969. He radioed back to Earth the historic news of "one giant leap for mankind." Armstrong and fellow astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin spent nearly three hours walking on the moon, collecting samples, conducting experiments and taking photographs. In all, 12 Americans walked on the moon from 1969 to 1972. (AP Photo/NASA)
This July 20, 1969 file photo provided by NASA shows Neil Armstrong. The family of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, says he has died at age 82. A statement from the family says he died following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures. It doesn't say where he died. Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon July 20, 1969. He radioed back to Earth the historic news of "one giant leap for mankind." Armstrong and fellow astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin spent nearly three hours walking on the moon, collecting samples, conducting experiments and taking photographs. In all, 12 Americans walked on the moon from 1969 to 1972. (AP Photo/NASA)
FILE - In this July 20, 1969 file photo provided by NASA shows Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, the first men to land on the moon, plant the U.S. flag on the lunar surface. The family of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, says he has died at age 82. A statement from the family says he died following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures. It doesn't say where he died. Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon July 20, 1969. He radioed back to Earth the historic news of "one giant leap for mankind." Armstrong and fellow astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin spent nearly three hours walking on the moon, collecting samples, conducting experiments and taking photographs. In all, 12 Americans walked on the moon from 1969 to 1972. (AP Photo/NASA)
FILE - In undated photo provided by NASA shows Neil Armstrong. The family of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, says he has died at age 82. A statement from the family says he died following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures. It doesn't say where he died. Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon July 20, 1969. He radioed back to Earth the historic news of "one giant leap for mankind." Armstrong and fellow astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin spent nearly three hours walking on the moon, collecting samples, conducting experiments and taking photographs. In all, 12 Americans walked on the moon from 1969 to 1972. (AP Photo/NASA)
FILE - In this 1969 photo provided by NASA the crew of the Apollo 11 mission is seen. From left are Neil Armstrong, Mission Commander, Michael Collins, Lt. Col. USAF, and Edwin Eugene Aldrin, also known as Buzz Aldrin, USAF Lunar Module pilot. The family of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, says he has died at age 82. A statement from the family says he died following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures. It doesn't say where he died. Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon July 20, 1969. He radioed back to Earth the historic news of "one giant leap for mankind." Armstrong and fellow astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin spent nearly three hours walking on the moon, collecting samples, conducting experiments and taking photographs. In all, 12 Americans walked on the moon from 1969 to 1972. (AP Photo/NASA)
FILE - In this Sept. 17, 1962 file photo, Neil Armstrong, one of the nine astronauts, is shown as he was introduced to the press, along with the other astronauts in Houston. The family of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, says he has died at age 82. A statement from the family says he died following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures. It doesn't say where he died. Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon July 20, 1969. He radioed back to Earth the historic news of "one giant leap for mankind." Armstrong and fellow astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin spent nearly three hours walking on the moon, collecting samples, conducting experiments and taking photographs. In all, 12 Americans walked on the moon from 1969 to 1972. (AP Photo/FILE)
CINCINNATI (AP) ? Neil Armstrong made "one giant leap for mankind" with a small step onto the moon.
He commanded the historic landing of the Apollo 11 spacecraft on the moon July 20, 1969, capping the most daring of the 20th century's scientific expeditions and becoming the first man to walk on the moon.
His first words after the feat are etched in history books and the memories of the spellbound millions who heard them in a live broadcast.
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," Armstrong said. He insisted later that he had said "a'' before man, but said he, too, couldn't hear it in the version that went to the world.
Armstrong, who had bypass surgery earlier this month, died Saturday at age 82 from what his family said were complications of heart procedures. His family didn't say where he died; he had lived in suburban Cincinnati.
He was "a reluctant American hero who always believed he was just doing his job," his family said in a statement.
The moonwalk marked America's victory in the Cold War space race that began Oct. 4, 1957, with the launch of the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1, a 184-pound satellite that sent shock waves around the world. The accomplishment fulfilled a commitment President John F. Kennedy made for the nation to put a man on the moon before the end of 1960s.
Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin spent nearly three hours walking on the lunar surface, collecting samples, conducting experiments and taking photographs.
"The sights were simply magnificent, beyond any visual experience that I had ever been exposed to," Armstrong once said.
In those first few moments on the moon, Armstrong stopped in what he called "a tender moment" and left a patch to commemorate NASA astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts who had died in action.
Although he had been a Navy fighter pilot, a test pilot for NASA's forerunner and an astronaut, the modest Armstrong never allowed himself to be caught up in the celebrity and glamour of the space program.
"I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer," he said in 2000 in one of his rare public appearances. "And I take a substantial amount of pride in the accomplishments of my profession."
Rice University historian Douglas Brinkley, who interviewed Armstrong for NASA's oral history project, said Armstrong fit every requirement the space agency needed for the first man to walk on moon, especially because of his engineering skills and the way he handled celebrity by shunning it.
?????????"I think his genius was in his reclusiveness," said Brinkley. "He was the ultimate hero in an era of corruptible men."
Fellow Ohioan and astronaut John Glenn, one of Armstrong's closest friends, recalled Saturday how Armstrong was on low fuel when he finally brought the lunar module Eagle down on the Sea of Tranquility.
"That showed a dedication to what he was doing that was admirable," Glenn said.
A man who kept away from cameras, Armstrong went public in 2010 with his concerns about President Barack Obama's space policy that shifted attention away from a return to the moon and emphasized private companies developing spaceships. He testified before Congress, and in an email to The Associated Press, Armstrong said he had "substantial reservations."
Along with more than two dozen Apollo-era veterans, he signed a letter calling the plan a "misguided proposal that forces NASA out of human space operations for the foreseeable future."
Armstrong was among the greatest of American heroes, Obama said in a statement.
"When he and his fellow crew members lifted off aboard Apollo 11 in 1969, they carried with them the aspirations of an entire nation. They set out to show the world that the American spirit can see beyond what seems unimaginable ? that with enough drive and ingenuity, anything is possible," Obama said.
Obama's Republican opponent Mitt Romney echoed those sentiments, calling Armstrong an American hero whose passion for space, science and discovery will inspire him for the rest of his life.
"With courage unmeasured and unbounded love for his country, he walked where man had never walked before. The moon will miss its first son of earth," Romney said.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden recalled Armstrong's grace and humility.
"As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on a world beyond our own," Bolden said in a statement.
Armstrong's modesty and self-effacing manner never faded.
When he appeared in Dayton in 2003 to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of powered flight, he bounded onto a stage before a packed baseball stadium. But he spoke for only a few seconds, did not mention the moon, and quickly ducked out of the spotlight.
He later joined Glenn, by then a senator, to lay wreaths on the graves of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Glenn introduced Armstrong and noted that day was the 34th anniversary of his moonwalk.
"Thank you, John. Thirty-four years?" Armstrong quipped, as if he hadn't given it a thought.
At another joint appearance, Glenn commented: "To this day, he's the one person on earth I'm truly, truly envious of."
Armstrong's moonwalk capped a series of accomplishments that included piloting the X-15 rocket plane and making the first space docking during the Gemini 8 mission, which included a successful emergency splashdown.
In the years afterward, Armstrong retreated to the quiet of the classroom and his southwestern Ohio farm. In an Australian interview earlier this year, Armstrong acknowledged that "now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things."
Glenn, who went through jungle training in Panama with Armstrong as part of the astronaut program, described him as "exceptionally brilliant" with technical matters but "rather retiring, doesn't like to be thrust into the limelight much."
The 1969 landing met an audacious deadline that President Kennedy had set in May 1961, shortly after Alan Shepard became the first American in space with a 15-minute suborbital flight. (Soviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin had orbited the Earth and beaten the U.S. into space the previous month.)
"I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth," Kennedy had said. "No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important to the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish."
The end-of-decade goal was met with more than five months to spare. "Houston: Tranquility Base here," Armstrong radioed after the spacecraft settled onto the moon. "The Eagle has landed."
"Roger, Tranquility," Apollo astronaut Charles Duke radioed back from Mission Control. "We copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot."
The third astronaut on the mission, Michael Collins, circled the moon in the mother ship Columbia 60 miles overhead while Armstrong and Aldrin went to the moon's surface.
"He was the best, and I will miss him terribly," Collins said through NASA.
In all, 12 American astronauts walked on the moon before the last moon mission in 1972.
For Americans, reaching the moon provided uplift and respite from the Vietnam War, from strife in the Middle East, from the startling news just a few days earlier that a young woman had drowned in a car driven off a wooden bridge on Chappaquiddick Island by Sen. Edward Kennedy. The landing occurred as organizers were gearing up for Woodstock, the legendary three-day rock festival on a farm in the Catskills of New York.
Armstrong was born Aug. 5, 1930, on a farm near Wapakoneta in western Ohio. He took his first airplane ride at age 6 and developed a fascination with aviation that prompted him to build model airplanes and conduct experiments in a homemade wind tunnel.
As a boy, he worked at a pharmacy and took flying lessons. He was licensed to fly at 16, before he got his driver's license.
Armstrong enrolled in Purdue University to study aeronautical engineering but was called to duty with the U.S. Navy in 1949 and flew 78 combat missions in Korea.
After the war, Armstrong finished his degree from Purdue and later earned a master's degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California. He became a test pilot with what evolved into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, flying more than 200 kinds of aircraft from gliders to jets.
Armstrong was accepted into NASA's second astronaut class in 1962 ? the first, including Glenn, was chosen in 1959. He commanded the Gemini 8 mission in 1966, bringing back the capsule back in an emergency landing in the Pacific Ocean when a wildly firing thruster kicked it out of orbit.
Aldrin said he and Armstrong were not prone to free exchanges of sentiment.
"But there was that moment on the moon, a brief moment, in which we sort of looked at each other and slapped each other on the shoulder ... and said, 'We made it. Good show,' or something like that," Aldrin said.
An estimated 600 million people ? a fifth of the world's population ? watched and listened to the landing, the largest audience for any single event in history.
Parents huddled with their children in front of the family television, mesmerized by what they were witnessing. Farmers abandoned their nightly milking duties, and motorists pulled off the highway and checked into motels just to see the moonwalk.
Television-less campers in California ran to their cars to catch the word on the radio. Boy Scouts at a camp in Michigan watched on a generator-powered television supplied by a parent.
Afterward, people walked out of their homes and gazed at the moon, in awe of what they had just seen. Others peeked through telescopes in hopes of spotting the astronauts.
In Wapakoneta, media and souvenir frenzy was swirling around the home of Armstrong's parents.
"You couldn't see the house for the news media," recalled John Zwez, former manager of the Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum. "People were pulling grass out of their front yard."
Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins were given ticker tape parades in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles and later made a 22-nation world tour. A homecoming in Wapakoneta drew 50,000 people to the city of 9,000.
In 1970, Armstrong was appointed deputy associate administrator for aeronautics at NASA but left the following year to teach aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati.
He remained there until 1979 and during that time bought a 310-acre farm near Lebanon, where he raised cattle and corn. He stayed out of public view, accepting few requests for interviews or speeches.
In 2000, when he agreed to announce the top 20 engineering achievements of the 20th Century as voted by the National Academy of Engineering, Armstrong mentioned one disappointment relating to his moonwalk.
"I can honestly say ? and it's a big surprise to me ? that I have never had a dream about being on the moon," he said.
From 1982 to 1992, Armstrong was chairman of Charlottesville, Va.-based Computing Technologies for Aviation Inc., a company that supplies computer information management systems for business aircraft.
He then became chairman of AIL Systems Inc., an electronic systems company in Deer Park, N.Y.
Armstrong married Carol Knight in 1999, and the couple lived in Indian Hill, a Cincinnati suburb. He had two adult sons from a previous marriage.
Armstrong's is the second death in a month of one of NASA's most visible, history-making astronauts. Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, died of pancreatic cancer on July 23 at age 61.
Just prior to the 50th anniversary of Glenn's orbital flight this past February, Armstrong offered high praise to the elder astronaut. Noted Armstrong in an email: "I am hoping I will be 'in his shoes' and have as much success in longevity as he has demonstrated." Glenn is 91.
At the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles on Saturday, visitors held a minute of silence for Armstrong.
For anyone else who wanted to remember him, his family's statement made a simple request:
"Honor his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink."
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Borenstein reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Steve Peoples in New Hampshire and AP Science Writers Alicia Chang in Los Angeles and Marcia Dunn in Cape Canaveral, Fla., contributed to this report.
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