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Glenn and his staff worried about the 1983 release of The Right Stuff, a film about the original seven Mercury astronauts based on the best-selling Tom Wolfe book of the same name.

The book had depicted Glenn as a " zealous moralizer ", and he did not attend the film's Washington premiere on October 16, 1983.

Reviewers saw Ed Harris ' portrayal of Glenn as heroic, however, and his staff immediately began to emphasize the film to the press.

Aide Greg Schneiders suggested an unusual strategy, similar to Glenn's personal campaign and voting style, in which he would avoid appealing to narrow special interest groups and instead seek to win support from ordinary Democratic primary voters, the " constituency of the whole ".

Mondale defeated Glenn for the nomination however, and he was left with $ 3 million in campaign debt for over 20 years before he was granted a reprieve by the Federal Election Commission.

He was a potential vice presidential running mate in 1984, 1988, and 1992.