Assuming that many of you are quite aware of the late John Glenn’s many feats as an astronaut, Marine pilot and long service as an Ohio Democratic senator from a small town in Central Ohio, I’ve decided to forego repeating them from my own memories of a modest quiet-spoken good man. Indeed, his Boy Scoutish character is the antipathetic contrast to Donald Trump, the insufferable Monster-in-Chief of today’s ugly political culture.

I was a political writer and he was a politician, which suggests a separation of, say, church and state.

But as I grew to know him one on one, […]