People say a lot of unkind things about John Glenn, and I won’t rule out the possibility that there might be good reasons for that. But I’d like to record that he did one good thing that I’ll never forget.
Seven years ago, a Republican majority had just taken power in Congress, threatening a number of reforms, including a rule that all legislation must carry a preamble specifying its Constitutional authority. If I am not misinformed, it was the Senator from Low Earth Orbit who naïvely blurted, “But that would make most of what we do illegal!”