Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Glenn tells Jimmy Carter to be tougher with Moscow...
Just as Senator John Glenn was leaving his Maryland home two weeks ago for the airport, the phone rang. It was Jimmy Carter. His voice seething with anger, he told the Ohio Democrat that the strategic arms talks with Moscow were at a "very sensitive stage." Progress on them could be slowed, said Carter, if Glenn went ahead with a speech that he was planning to deliver at the launching of a nuclear submarine that day in Groton, Conn. What upset Carter was the Senator's intention to urge the Administration to be tougher with the Soviets...
...While Glenn's wife waited in the car, Glenn and the President "went at it hammer and tongs," in Glenn's words. Said Glenn: "I have never talked to a President that way before and no President has talked that way to me before...
...enough, Carter asked Glenn, that he had already assured Congressmen that verification would be adequate? For Glenn, it was not. But as the Senator later said, "When the President makes a personal plea to me, I have to honor that...
Senior co-captains Glenn Fine and Bob Hooft shared most valuable player honors, and Bob Allen was named next year's captain at the annual basketball banquet, held last night under the Great Dome at Quincy Market...