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Years in captivity, he was can you be theed to repeated torture and experienced frequent bouts of disinteri and constant isolation. >> he was held in solitary confinement for two years. that tested his will to live and his belief system. >> every day was about one thing, survival. >> by christmas 1972, the u.s. dramatically increased its bombing runs over north vietnam in an effort to get the vietnamese to the negotiating table. >> thats what caused the communist negotiator to agree to terms acc...

>> over the next five and a half years in captivity, he was to repeated torture and experienced frequent bouts of dysentery and constant isolation. >> he was held in solitary confinement for two years. that tested his will to live and his belief system. >> every day was about one thing, survival. >> by christmas 1972, the u.s. dramatically increased its bombing runs over north vietnam in an effort to get the vietnamese to the negotiating table. >> thats what caused the communist negotiator to ag...

Very few people have been tested in the ways that he was tested, physically, psychologically, emotionally and patriotically. the fact that he emerged from the caldron of captivity in vietnam is an enduring lesson, an invigorating lesson for all of us who think our politics is so broken. our politics is so terrible. they may be broken, it may feel terrible but this is still the last best hope. >> thank you so much. more of our coverage of the death of arizona senator john mccain who passed away t...

Captivity, he was subjected to repeated torture and experienced frequent bouts of dysentery and constant isolation. >> he was in solitary containment for two years. that tested his will to live and his belief system. >> every day was basically about one thing, survival. >> by christmas 1972, the u.s. increased its bombing runs over north vietnam in an effort to get the north vietnamese to the negotiating table. >> thats what caused the communist negotiator to agree to terms acceptable to preside...

Be talking about him tonight because of those five and a half years he spent being tortured in captivity in north vietnam at a time when he could have taken their offer to leave early. >> its easy to say that it meant he didnt scare easily but young folks coming up today may not know what the maverick tag that was attached to him, what it meant and the fact that he lived through a different era of a kind of bipartisanship, think about it. john kerry toyed with the idea of choosing him as a democ...

>> absolutely. he would go to political rallies and someone standing next to him would try to hold his arm up in the air and he said i cant do it. dont you realize im not able to do that? this is something that was with him every single hour of his life after that ordeal in vietnam and brian, had john mccain not gone on to do anything in politics after he returned from vietnam in the spring of 1973, i think we would be talking about him tonight because of those five and a half years he spent bei...

Him and known him is a feisty spirit, he enjoys being funny and poking fun, he enjoys a good fight. he really savor the opportunity toe engage politically with his politics. at times including throwing some elbow a elbows and barbs at them. >> of course, from a navy family and the other thing that always strike me is we think of him as a presidential national figure because he was the nominee for the republican party long known for his p.o.w. and the five and a half years of captivity in vietnam...

Talks about the people of arizona. he did not have a home base of his own. when he met hensley mccain and they became a family and arizona has became his home and he represented arizona for decades >> kelly odonell. thank you for that positive. >> i want to bring in jon meacham. whats not lost on me, jon, here we are day by day and week by week, lurching from one scandal to the next. here we are talking about john mccain. >> what to you does he represent in american politics? >> well, he was bor...

Family as well. he is of course beloved by his wife cindy who he has been married to since 1980, seven children, there are grandchildren. and a very broad community of people who have admired him. of course he became a public figure as a young man because he was the son of the leading admiral running the pacific command during vietnam when john mccain was himself an aviator and became a police they arisonr 5 1/2 years. and he had the opportunity to be released early, but followed the code and op...

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