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He is a political product of his times, he was fairly liberal and big government. I do remember that my father once wrote to him to try and get help for a coworker suffering from black lung and he did take an interest in helping the guy. The old guy was a WW11 veteran like my father and should of qualified for VA assistance he wasn’t getting for some reason that Glenn cleared up. I think that old sick man did not care if the devil himself helped him as long as he could get some help.

John Glenn is one of the biggest pr**ks I have ever met. Or more accurately, one of the biggest ones I did not want to meet. I was in one of the training buildings at JSC when Glenn was there. I was visiting and Glenn walked by. They asked me if I wanted to meet him. I said no but they stopped him anyway. I looked at Glenn and said "why are you going up on the shuttle? There is no good reason for you to. You are bumping somebody else who has been training for many years just because you want to have some fun time". He got pissed at me. Said "who the hell is this?" and whatnot. I just walked away.

The people I was with were saying they were sorry to him and that I was not an employee so they could not "fire my ass" as he had just told them to. We walked out of the building and as soon as the door closed behind us the guys I was with busted out laughing and told me that they all wanted to talk to Glenn that way.

Glenn sucks!

I admire John Glenn, but he is also the very picture of a man who compartmentalized his politics from his profession. He bought his seat on the Space Shuttle by coming to the ludicrous defense of the White House and Hillary Clinton during the Amato banking hearings back in the ‘90’s.