Remember the movie, “No country for old men?” America is becoming, “no country for statesmen.”
John Glenn is one of the last great American heroes—combat veteran, astronaut, senator, statesman and a gentleman in every respect. Regrettably, the days when he served in the senate—when the paradigm was that country came before political party—are long gone. Political party demands now dominate, a problem exacerbated by Constitutional provisions enacted over 200 years ago to appease the southern states. Listen to our conversation with Dale Butland, who served as Glenn’s chief of staff in the senate.