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George Pyle: Democrats show some of The Right Stuff

In the Tom Wolfe book and Philip Kaufman movie “The Right Stuff,” there’s a standout scene where astronaut John Glenn has just been pried out of his Mercury capsule because bad weather has scrubbed his exceedingly risky (“Our rockets always blow up") Atlas launch.

He is instantly confronted by a NASA bureaucrat who is mad because Glenn’s wife, Annie, doesn’t want to admit Vice President Lyndon Johnson, and attendant press corps, into her home. Annie is shy, in part because she has a pronounced stutter that causes her to speak very little.

Glenn picks up the phone, tells Annie it is her house and nobody gets in unless she says so.