well so it was in violation of everything he believed in. john mccain and john kerry were not likely allies. they didn t trust each other. john kerry wrote an interesting tribute to him that they didn t trust each other, they didn t know each other and then they went to hanoi together, one who suffered so goorievously, one w fought and returned and was a protester against the war and mccain told him that they in captivity heard there was a naval officer who threw his medals down and his ribbons down and that they found that so offensive but they also came together to help bill clinton normalize relations in 195 in vietnam. he could not have done it without the political support of veterans of that war that he had not enlisted. some said evaded the draft so he worked across the aisle with hillary clinton, with amy
was successful in changing people s attitudes about what service to country really meant. to the navy man now, malcolm nance, your thoughts on the passing of john mccain. i m heartbroken. i had a pretty rough night earlier as you know, said some tough things on twitter. but i m a navy man, i m a chief. i met john mccain and the first thing i said to him i was so excited and i m a chief, i m a senior chief. and he goes everything i learned in the navy i learned from a chief. and when i wast a survivor school in coronado i had red his pink classified debrief, and that man was treated horribly, he was tortured mercilessly. admiral stockdale would come into the school, just wonder in and talk about how john mccain was thrown into a hole in cal
cox and got away with it for a while but the substitute name was leon jaworski who was just as serious about the investigation as archibald cox. you can imagine trump feels he can get away from firing sessions and having a toady named, if you will, or a loyalist, to replace mueller and maybe it goes away without real opposition from the republican party. jennifer rubin, it s striking because light, joe lieberman and john mccain were thought of as the three amigos. the perception is that lindsey graham, if not john mccain s best friend, one of them, and they used to be simpatico on issues, very hawkish, tough on things like russia and donald trump. but lindsey graham has been overtly a buddy of donald trump lately to the point where he s now saying hey there may be no jeff sessions after the election. and then there s this from politico. republicans saying sessions is
cutta, and they called those people tigers because they would go in there, and in these horrible conditions of captivity, he survived the forestal fire, the single mass conflageration and john mccain was literally in the middle of that explosion as airplanes were splashing around him. this man is a giant not just in the u.s. navy. thank god he will be buried next or near john paul jones. i ll tell you next if you asked him he would say he failed. and he failed because although everybody says i m going to resist, i m going to ekoo keep resisting and they re not going to get anything from me, in the end he was broken. and he was broken because everybody breaks at one point. and everybody malcolm knows
was saying, but he had that spirit of reaching across of friendship, of kindness. he d spend on hour on the phone with a reporter to talk about other people and issues that weren t going to necessarily benefit him at all. that was his style. he had an innemtable style that really embraced. and the rivalry with george w. bush was overcome, the rivalry with the clinton was overcome. it is unusual the ongoing anonymity that according to the washington post donald trump carried right to the end, not making a statement about john mccain at all and finally ultimately tweeting his deepest sympathies to the family of john mccain. that went out last night. but notably donald trump is not going to be at that funeral. how unusual is that as a historical fact that the current president of the united states will likely not be at the