“Major Anders! Quick! You’ve got to come to flag bridge. The president is going to call in five minutes. Move it!” Anders was torn between his duties. He could only answer to the higher power. “I’m not going!” Anders yelled to the man. “Tell him I’m on the toilet and I’m not going.” There was no way Anders could risk losing control of himself while talking to the president of the United States. A minute later, one of the ship’s doctors ran in with a portable telephone and passed it through the bathroom door to Anders. Borman and Lovell picked up their own extensions, likely in sick bay,
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