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    "ocrText": "Interview with Lt. Col. John H. Glenn, Jr.\n18\nGrand Turk and we came back with him in the airplane to\nPatrick Air Force Base following the flight. Then we were\nwith him in Washington and in New York and saw him on a\nnumber of occasions. In fact, just before we left Washington\nwe had the Vice President and Mrs. Johnson at our home for\ndinner, and had a very good time.\nMr. Sohier: There was some talk in the press when you were\nup in New York at the ticker-tape parade that the Vice\nPresident was most anxious to get in on that parade because\nit was a great symbol of space, and so on. Are there any\nanecdotes about that?\nColonel Glenn: No, we had a very pleasant time with them\nevery time we were together. I know there was some criti-\ncism of him at the time, I think from some of the opposite\npolitical quarter, about some of these appearances at\nvarious events every time, but I certainly didn't look at\nit that way. I appreciated his thoughtfulness and the\nPresident's in taking the time and the effort to be with us\non those occasions. I thought it was fine myself.\nMr. Sohier: What about the visit of Cosmonaut Gherman S.\nTitov to this country? I believe you squired him around\nduring his visit?\nColonel Glenn: Yes, I did. That was a very interesting\ncouple of days we spent with the Titovs and with all their\nentourage they had with them here, and the President was\nvery interested in all this. He met Titov at the White\nHouse. We talked for a little while with the President\nand he was interested, in particular, in any areas of\nmutual experience that we had had, or where our observations\nand theirs were similar or dissimilar.\nThere were a number of things that happened during the\nTitovs' visit here. We both gave papers at a COSPAR meeting\nin Washington. Later, Dr. Dryden and myself, and Titov and\nBlagonravov, were on a TV show that was different from the\nusual panel show. The President was interested in our\nreaction to all of these things."
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