today, but the reality, the message, frederica, inside that washington national cathedral today was, in fact, a final lesson in john mccain in civility. in fact, a plea for sort of an end to this tribal politics that really has divided the country, and i was really struck, fre frederica, watching this play out as everyone did, just this living tableau of history from republicans and democrats sitting side-by-side. there were no partisan aisles in this. it was simply a celebration of john mccain, to be sure, but also a sort of bigger than that, a bit of a reflection of our politics in this moment, but this is exactly what john mccain wanted. he scripted all of this as we ve been talking about all week, but so pointed that he asked barack obama and george w. bush, the two men who stopped him from his biggest dream of being president, to send him off