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    "ocrText": "Interview with Lt. Col. John H. Glenn, Jr.\n21\nColonel Glenn: Yes, we did. I don't recall any specific\nthings now. He was always very pleasant and there were\nalways a lot of jokes or little things. I think every time\nI saw him after this recounting of the barbecue incident at\nhome, at some time while I was there, he would ask me if I\nhad had any barbecues recently.\nWhen we went up to the Cape [Hyannis Port] for the weekend\nwe weren't aware that the President and Mrs. Kennedy were\ngoing to be there. I remember the way we learned. Ethel\nKennedy suggested we go sailing. Well, I knew that they\nhad a fairly large sailboat, the Victura. I had never been\nout in one like that. I had never sailed a boat of that\ntype, so I didn't feel qualified to take it out in the 25-\nor 30-knot wind blowing this particular day. Ethel said,\n\"No, no, that's all right. We'll go sailing; we can take\ncare of it all right.\" So we changed clothes and went down.\nIt was a blustery, blowing day. Well, when my family walked\nfrom the house down toward the dock with Ethel, we could see\nsomeone working on the Victura. They were wearing leather\njackets and old clothes, and as we got out toward the end of\nthe dock it became a little more apparent who these people\nwere. It was the President and Mrs. Kennedy, rigging the\nsails. Any doubts I had had about sailing in that weather\nwere somewhat alleviated. I felt that if he could go out\nthat day, it would probably be all right for us to venture\nout. They brought the boat in from its mooring and we went\naboard. We had seven or eight people in the boat and had a\nlot of fun cruising around the bay. It was quite a windy\nday. There was enough force on the tiller that the President\ndidn't want to strain his back, so Dave, my son, who had\nnever sailed a boat like that before, became the helmsman\nand the President gave him the word on what to do. So Dave\nhad some pretty expert instruction, back and forth across\nthe harbor at Hyannis Port. The President seemed to enjoy\nit as much as we did, and that was considerable I assure\nyou.\nMr. Sohier: You mentioned the President's back, and one is\nled to believe that he was in pain a great deal of the time"
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