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Him smiling at you, just looking at you. or, when you saw the sheer joy that crossed his face the moment that he was about to get up and take the stage on the senate floor and start a fight. [laughter] god, he loved it. [laughter] so to cindy and the kids, doug and andy, cindy, megan, jack, jimmy, bridget. and i know shes not here, but to mrs. mccain, we know how difficult it is to bury a child, mrs. mccain. my heart goes out for you. and i know right now the pain you are all feeling is so sharp...

Said it, thats great, we loved it. john was like, good to see you, thank you. so we went in and he said, im sorry about that. we went to work and guess what, i think he won that about 85-15 in that election, that precinct. we will miss so many things about him here in our state. his leadership here on these important issues. we are going to miss his sense of humor, and his love of sports. he loved the teams, all of our teams. and by love them, i mean love them nonstop. and he loved you guys. he ...

Friend or not and at the end of the day, we could go a couple years without seeing each other but when we did, 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. and this is of course when hes in his presidential campaign. we end up in las vegas with his two right-hand folks that have always run his campaigns, which i have the greatest respect for. so we did a quick chitchat and, john says, i want you to speak on my ...

Someone close to him could understand. but the way i look at it, or how i thought about it, was, i always thought of john as a brother. we had a lot of family fights. [laughter] we go back a long way. i was a young united states senator. i got elected when i was 29 and i had the dubious distinction of being put on the foreign relations 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 i w...

Birthday song in our culture and of course john and cindy lit up. it was a great evening and we enjoyed the night. that senator john mccain. he keeps his word. thats the senator that we have 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, with father tony, a dear friend of mine. and he said, you have the congre...

Was going 100 miles an hour. so i said okay. and he said, i want you to cochair my campaign. and i said john, you know im a democrat. [laughter] im not sure thats going to help you with your republican campaign. and he said, i dont care, youre my friend, i want you to cochair. i said, let me sleep on it. and he said no, give me an answer right now, yes or no. and of course i said yes. once again, senator john mccain. he goes over to the other side. and dont forget, i was an activist back then. w...

And i said yes, i will be there. he had a big smile on his face and he said, watch out when you start your car. [laughter] and i said, okay senator. i will 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 see and hear all day and share with you, different stories. i will tell you that the one time we met was when megan was on the tv program, and he said, you know megans on tv now. okay. do you see her?

Unfortunately from the experience. there is nothing anyone can say or do to ease the pain right no 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 the eighth of johns death. look around this magnificent church. look what you saw at the state capitol yesterday. its hard to stand there, but part of it was, or at least it was with me with beau, you know it was genuine and deep, he touched so many lives.

As an office, it used to be on the basement floor. members of the military who are assigned to the senators when they travel abroad, they meet with heads of state or other foreign dignitaries. john had been recently released from the hanoi, and he was a hero. he came to me and for some reason we hit it off in the beginning. we were both full of dreams and ambitions, and an overwhelming desire to make the time we had there worthwhile. try to do the right thing, think about how we could make thing...

Faith in the country and their faith in god. i looked out into the audience they are in my hometown and those were some of my peers and the peers of my parents. those were tough independent guys, they were ranchers and farmers, there were some cowboy cowboys, businessmen, entrepreneurs and they were crying. they saw in john mccain a little bit of what they hope to see in themselves. they saw in john mccain the embodiment of values that they hoped to see for the country. over the next few months ...