like me who have not been through what you have been through, what senator mccain had been through, what orson swindle has been through. you cannot relate to that sacrifice that you would kidded about it, i know senator mccain would kid about it. very rarely did you guys even want to talk about it. why? i don t know why. it is a tough thing that happened to each of us. and, i determined that it did not do anything good to talk about it. it did not change your injuries. but, i think we kept it to ourselves, and that was the proper thing to do. neil: that is the difference between you and me, senator. i would be hawking it everywhere. senator, you are better men than me. how that changes your perspective on war and defense and all of this. if anything, you were reticent
i believe at the time and barack obama, and of course, the former nominees saying that the democrats are running a very negative campaign. the president went on to get elective anyway. a former economic director for john mccain s presidential campaign. i know there has to be mixed emotions for you. you have been through and seen so much with this senator and the financial meltdown. dealing with that with him for years prior. you could speak to his temperament under pressure and under a presidential campaign. give me that aspect of it, if you don t mind. neil, there is an unspoken sermon. john s was on a powerful sermo. i checked to see senator dole and orson swindle who was a
family. yes. and we have, you know, we knew that this day would come, but, there is still a sadness that it is in the air. yes. my memory of john mccain, and john was a unique individual. he is very, very fortunate to have lived episodes that happened several times in his career prior totured and while down. he is, if you will recall, he was in a body cast and taken care of by other fellow p.o.w.s and john could not feed himself or bathe himself or clean himself, and all of this was done with the assistance of cellmates like bud day, and the medal of honor winner who is now deis ceased, orson swindle and other people who were key people in his survival in the day.