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Was chairman of the european affairs subcommittee, so i spent a lot of time at nato and then the soviet union. along came a guy a couple of years later, a guy i knew of, admired from afar, your husband, who had been a prisoner of war, who had endured enormous, enormous pain and suffering. and demonstrated the code, the mccain code. people dont think much about it today, but imagine having already known the pain you were likely to endure and being offered the opportunity to go home but saying no....

Looking, turn and see him just smiling at you, from a distance, just looking at you. or when you saw the pure joy the moment he was about to take the stage on the senate floor and start a fight. [ laughter ] >> god, he loved it. so, to cindy, the kids, doug, andy, cindy, megan, jack, bridgette, i know shes not here, to mrs. mccain, we know how difficult it is to bury a child. my heart goes out to you. i know right now, the pain you all are feeling is so sharp and so hollowing. johns absence is a...

Way that only someone close to him could understand. but the way i look at it, the way i thought about it was that i always thought of john as a brother. we had a hell of a lot of family fights. we go back a long way. i was a young united states senator. i got elected when i was 29. i had the dubious distinction of being put on the formulations committee, which the next youngest person was 14 years older than me. and i spent a lot of time traveling the world because i was assigned responsibility...

And john and i ended up traveling every time i went anywhere, i took john with me or john to be me with him. we were in china, japan, russia, germany, france, england, turkey, all over the world. tens of thousands of miles. and we would sit on that plane and late in the night, when everyone else was asleep, and just talk. getting to know one another. wed talk about family. wed talk about politics, wed talk about international relations. wed talk about promise, the promise of america. we were opt...

A traditional mexican birthday song in our culture. and of course john and cindy lit up and it was a great evening. we enjoyed the night. thats senator john mccain. he keeps his word. thats the senator that weve had all these years that sometimes we beat up on. thats the senator that i hope people can embrace what he stood for, for our country. and, yes, he was a maverick. in his first senatorial campaign, i get a call and its him on the phone. im with father tony, a dear friend of mine, and the...

But, i know something else, unfortunately, from experience, theres nothing anyone can say or do to ease the pain right now, but i pray, i pray you take some comfort knowing that because you shared john with all of us, your whole life, the world now shares with you in the ache of johns death. look around this magnificent place. look what you saw coming from the state capitol yesterday. its hard to stand there but part of it, part of it was at least it was for me with beau, standing in the state c...

I want you there. youre my friend, i want you there. i said, yes, ill be there. he said, well, he says, with a big smile on his face, watch out when you start your car. i said, okay, senator, ill do that. so john kind of put me out on the national scene. and i must confess he did a number of things that i could stand here all day and share with you different stories. i will tell you that that one time when we met is when meghan was on the tv program and i dont even remember the name of the tv pr...

>> my name is joe biden. im a democrat. and i loved john mccain. i have had the dubious honor over the years of giving some eulogies for fine women and men that ive admired. but, lindsay, this one is hard. the three men who spoke before me i think captured john, different aspects of john in a

With john, you were either a friend or -- at the end of the day, we could go a couple of years without seeing each other, but when we did, it was like old home week. he was warm, he was energy. he was going 100 miles an hour, but yet he made time to be with you. and then the second time we get a call to come to las vegas. this is, of course, when hes in his presidential campaign. and we end up in las vegas with his two right-hand folks that have always run his campaigns, which i have the greates...

Husband, your friend. it crosses your mind and a smile comes to your lip before a tear to your eye. thats who you know. i promise you, i give you my word, i promise you, this i know. they will come. the day will come. you know, im sure if my former colleagues who work with john, im sure theres people who said to you not only now, but the last ten years, explain this guy to me. right? explain this guy to me. because, as they looked at him, in one sense they admired him, in one sense, the way thin...