Annie Glenn, widow of former astronaut and Sen. John Glenn, dies at 100

AP ^ | 5/19/2020 | JULIE CARR SMYTH

[grayboots]

Annie Glenn, the widow of astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn and a communication disorders advocate, died Tuesday of complications from COVID-19. She was 100.

Glenn died at a nursing home near St. Paul, Minnesota, said Hank Wilson, a spokesman for the Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University.

At the time of John Glenn’s death in 2016, the two had been married 73 years. She had moved out of the apartment they shared in Columbus in recent years and gone to live with her daughter, Lyn, according to Wilson.

Annie Glenn was thrust into the spotlight in 1962, when her husband became the first American to orbit Earth. She shied away from the media attention because of a severe stutter.

[BenLurkin]

100.

[Bonemaker]

John Glenn was an all-american hero for awhile. Then he became a democrat politician.

[jerod]

In the movie of Tom Wolfe's novel 'The Right Stuff' Annie was portrayed as a loving wife and John Glenn was portrayed as a loving husband... There is no doubt that these two were a loving couple... The sad part, during those years Democrat President Lyndon Johnston treated those astronauts like monkey's in a sideshow circus... John Glenn then became a Democrat. Sad but true... But Bubba Clinton gave him final ride to space for his support during his corrupt administration, so it worked out in the end for John Glenn... a Hypocrite to the end.

[plain talk]

Wow she did pretty good until Minnesota incompetence did her in.

[Spirochete]

John Glenn was an all-american hero for awhile. Then he became a democrat politician

In fairness to him, he became involved with democrats when it was the party of Truman and JFK. Most TV programs and magazine content were still black & white.

But damn him for sticking with it as a die-hard all the way through the Obama years.

[Reily]

The story I heard about John Glenn and his entry into politics as told to me by some Ohio minor GOP apparatchiks (Friends of my father.) is as follows:

Glenn first approached the Rhodes GOP machine to get their support to run for office. They turned him down. He then went to the Ohio Rat machine and they jumped on the opportunity. Glenn evolved into the typical Rat politician over time and by the fact they brought him to the dance.

[BenLurkin]

[jerod]

Notice the only Republican in Name Only in that bunch?

McCain was a complete hypocrite thru and thru. Sad to say, but as bad as Obama was as President, knowing that he kept McCain from ascending was almost worth it.

[Old Sarge]

Here, I thought I was the last one who remembered that!

[BenLurkin]

Glenn had received $34,000 in direct contributions from Keating and his associates for his 1984 presidential nomination campaign, and a political action committee tied to Glenn had received an additional $200,000.

McCain and Keating had become personal friends following their initial contacts in 1981,[11] and McCain was the only one of the five with close social and personal ties to Keating.[42][43]

McCain considered Keating a constituent since Keating lived in Arizona.[35] Between 1982 and 1987, McCain had received $112,000 in political contributions from Keating and his associates.[44] In addition, McCain's wife Cindy McCain and her father Jim Hensley had invested $359,100 in the Fountain Square Project, a Keating shopping center, in April 1986, a year before McCain met with the regulators.[7][45]

McCain, his family, and their baby-sitter had made nine trips at Keating's expense, sometimes aboard Keating's jet; three of the trips were made during vacations to Keating's Bahamas retreat at Cat Cay.[7]

McCain did not pay Keating (in the amount of $13,433) for some of the trips until years after they were taken, when he learned that Keating was in trouble over Lincoln.[7][46]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five#Relationships_of_senators_to_Keating

[BenLurkin]

Yes well, just don’t ask me to remember what I had for lunch yesterday,

[laconic]

John Glenn could have run for king in 1962 after the first American orbital flight and been elected. It was sad that he allowed himself to be the errand boy for the Dems on all sorts of leftist issues - they put him out on stage with his clean cut American astronaut image and his Korean War fighter pilot background and he would back any odious left wing nut policy they asked him to. That and the corruption of the Keating Five, he was always saved by his former life achievements. He almost lost his last Senate election and I remember the news anchors were quite openly relieved that he just won it. His wife was probably quite a nice person, she suffered from a speech defect which made her very uncomfortable in public.

[Reily]

Agree!

He became just another corrupt Rat pol.
Heck of a way to end a life’s legacy!

[Moonman62]

John Glenn could have run for king in 1962 after the first American orbital flight and been elected.

...

Then why did it take him multiple tries to win office?

[treetopsandroofs]

She had my sympathies beginning in 1974, RIP.

[Gay State Conservative]

Zero respect for him...was she guilty by association?

[Texas resident]

John Glenn was one of my heroes from the early space program.

He blocked investigations into Clinton, then got a ride in space in return.

Just another dimrat.

[xp38]

Yeah that was probably the only silver lining. The two 0 elections were choices from hell.

[sauropod]

RIP.