“His service will always loom large in America's history. He is one of the great heroes of modern America.”

—  Alan Shepard

President Bill Clinton — reported in Seth Borenstein (July 23, 1998) "Astronaut Filled America's Need for a Space Hero", Detroit Free Press, p. 1A.
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