Yours is probably the true story. I was like 9 years old at the time. I was repeating what I heard my parents & their “Republican” friends say. Their story did fit what few facts I knew.
In a way, it’s probably better the GOP dodged that bullet. Given that it took a ride on the space shuttle to get him to provide cover for Clinton/Gore on the Chinagate matter, which was treasonous, who knows what kind of damage he’d have inflicted as a Republican (think Juan McQueeg).
As I’ve said on many occasions, I’ll never forget when the media went to Sen. Fred Thompson (who was chairman of the committee investigating Chinagate) for a feel-good soundbyte when Glenn retired in 1998, the normally cordial and gentlemanly Thompson said what he had to say about Glenn and his actions in the cover-up could not be repeated on television.