John Glenn was celebrity for all seasons
John Glenn couldn’t get to first base as a presidential candidate in 1984. Even then, America was more easily dazzled by Ronald Reagan, who had played a hero in the movies, than a man who flew 149 combat missions in World War II and Korea before becoming the first person to orbit the earth. Long before game show host Donald Trump took the presidential plunge, we were well on the way to redefining words like โheroโ and โcelebrityโ so that…