game, kept his spirits up when his first wife died, a friend who was always with him. a life of huge achievements, but a life of the small little things. and graciousness. i covered his son s time in the white house. i didn t know him at all, especially compared to you and didn t cover him the way you two did, but the one of the my vivid memories is covering the mccain campaign in 2008. while barack obama was in europe with tens of thousands of people cheering for him literally, john mccain went to visit george h.w. bush. and what did the former president do? he took all of us reporters, who are not revered by a lot of politicians, around and gave us a tour of walker s point, showed us everything that we wanted to see. he wasn t that mobile, but he wanted to make sure. and he walked us all around. he did not have to do that and i don t know that any other person would have done it the way he did. the biggest surprise i saw yesterday, mary kate, was the former secretary of state jam