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    "ocrText": "Interview with Lt. Col. John H. Glenn, Jr.\n13\ngroups that were interested in this. We shouldn't let them\ndown and go off on big speaking tours and so on just glad-\nhanding with the public and accepting the kudos more or less.\nHe agreed with this--that we wanted to make sure we got the\nmaximum input back into the program.\nRight after the flight it was suggested that I make tours to\nEurope and some other places, much as the Russian cosmonauts\nhad done and are still doing, and we felt that going out\njust specifically to say, \"Here I am, clap for me, and give\nme the flowers and the medal, as had been done, was sort of\na hollow-type gesture. We thought that our time could best\nbe spent getting the information back into the program and\ngetting on with advances in the program. He agreed with\nthis. He thought that we should get around this country as\nmuch as possible and get in touch with as many people here\nin different settings as we could, which we did to a degree.\nI don't know whether it was as much as he had hoped we would\ndo or not. My Japanese visit was one that he had some con-\nnection with after the thing was over. I was out in Japan\nfor Gordo Cooper's flight, as I mentioned, and since I was\nalready there we decided this was a good opportunity to see\nJapan. I wanted my family to see Japan, so I took ten days'\nleave following Gordo's flight, stayed out there, and had\nAnnie and the kids fly out at our own expense. USIA [United\nStates Information Agency] asked me while we were out there\nif we would mind talking to some of the groups for the\nGovernment and so on for a couple of days in Tokyo, and\nmeeting some of the government officials and so on. I\nagreed to this; this was fine even though we were officially\non leave and were there at our own expense.\nSo, when I came back and met the family in Tokyo, we stayed\nat the Embassy with Ambassador and Mrs. [Edwin 0.] Reischauer.\nThey had organized the first couple of days back in Tokyo,\nduring which we met the Crown Prince, the Prime Minister, the\nForeign Minister, and many, many government officials right\ndown the line. There were also meetings with scientific\ngroups and newspaper groups, TV, radio, science writers, and\nso on. It was obvious after the first couple of days in"
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