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THE RIGHT STUFF
Who is the luckiest person that you know? Did you say John Glenn? He gets my vote. John Glenn was my hero back in the day. The stories he can tell…
I interviewed John Glenn. We talked for over an hour. What an amazing guy! He told me about his love of flying. Fighter pilot. Test pilot. Astronaut. That was plenty. We didn’t have time to talk about his time as a United States Senator, presidential candidate,or his return to space as a senior citizen.
Not enough time. One thing we did get into was his reaction to the book THE RIGHT STUFF by Tom Wolfe. I was reminded of John Glenn’s reaction when I saw that Picador has just reissued the book. John Glenn also told me how he felt about the movie version of the book. John Glenn is SO cool.
I shall always treasure the memory of that conversation with my childhood hero. John Glenn always had the right stuff.
Vick Mickunas
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By victor mickunas
February 23, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this
John Glenn is all over our TV sets in Ohio right now giving his endorsement to Hillary Clinton as we approach this do or die Ohio primary. Maybe some of his luck will rub off on her but I doubt it.By Prose
February 17, 2008 6:33 AM | Link to this
Glad you met such a great man. Of course despite his courage and deserved hero status he never could have been elected president. Too short, too Everyman, too smart. Americans like their presidents tall, rich, self absorbed and especially well tooled by what J.S. Mills termed “the power elite”. He’d have had to put his integrity in his back pocket. Something this man would not have done. Until I saw the size of Glenn’s Mercury space capsule it never dawned on me just how miraculous his famous ride was.