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    "ocrText": "Interview with Lt. Col. John H. Glenn, Jr.\n9\nMr. Sohier: In this conversation did he mention General\nEisenhower's book, \"Crusade in Europe,\" as being an example\nof the kind of thing that he felt perhaps ought not to lead\nto being able to sell the story? He mentioned this at the\ntime that I had talked to him. I wondered whether he\ncontinued that line of thought.\nColonel Glenn: I don't remember that one specifically, no.\nHe mentioned a number of cases of people in Government that\nhe thought had taken strictly their Government experiences\nand had profited by them when they should not have, and I\ndon't remember the ones now that he recalled. I recall\nthat there were quite a number of these that apparently he\ndidn't care for at all, but I don't know which ones they\nwere.\nWe discussed this for probably 20 minutes to half an hour.\nWe went into all phases of it: how this had worked out\nduring my flight; how through this we had been able to\ncontrol some of the press activities with the family because\nwe did have this contract; of course, to put it on a crass\ncommercial basis this thing had been very good in that it\nguaranteed that I could give my children the education that\nI wanted to give them. So, from a strictly personal stand-\npoint, I was all for it and thought it had worked to our\nadvantage and to NASA's and the Government's in the way we\nhad handled it; and, if we could just get across to people\nthe idea that this was not a sale of our experiences in\nflight, I thought this would be generally accepted.\nMr. Sohier: In the August 24 meeting, the group that went\nover from NASA-Walter Lingle, John Johnson, and Richard\nCallaghan--discussed with Pierre Salinger and the President\nthis very point, and one of the things he brought out was\nthe fact that by virtue of your status as astronauts you had\nexpenses over and above what you would have had but for your\nfame, and that this was an additional reason for going along\nwith this. Did he discuss this? Was this one of your\narguments with him?"
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