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On a saturday to an important meeting or turning down a popular friday night dinner invitation at the munich security conference we went to every year because it was too far to walk, we would stay in the hotel and have what john learned to call our peaceful sabbath dinners. with john they werent that peaceful. john naturally grumbled all the way of what i was putting him through. right now hes probably deriving some pleasure from the fact it turned out that his funeral was held on a saturday and...

Responses to complicated national problems like health care. and, of course, he was right. in his remarks last july, john also spoke eloquently of our position in the world, of americas continuing responsibility for principal leadership in the world. it was as if he thought that might be one of his last better opportunities to move his colleagues and his country. its a speech worth reading, but i just want to quote one sentence. what greater cause could we hope to serve than helping keep america...

Were touring the hanoi hilton a group of college students recognized john and they began to chant wildly, mccain, mccain. they wanted to take his pictures and have him sign autographs. when it was over, i asked him why he got such a rock star reception in hanoi. and with classic directness, he said, well, first, because theyve been taught that i was treated a lot better here than i really was. and, second, its because of the normalization of relations between the u.s. and vietnam. that was a cla...

That assassination. i think were seeing a bit of that now. theres something going to be different tomorrow than today. weve been through the turns of events before. well be right back at the beginning of the hour for beginning of this service. john mccapable designed and crypted most of it. who he wanted to say good-bye to him. scripted. scripted

And johns life he nobly served and advanced these american values. and remarkably his death seems to have reminded the american people that these values are what makes us a great nation. not the triable partisanship and personal attack politics that have recently characterized our life. this weeks celebration of the life and values and patriotism of this hero, i think youve taken our country above all that. in a way, its the last great that john mccain gave america. and i want to suggest today t...

Cheering, and cheering, and cheering and chanting words of welcome and thanks. and the two words they chanted most were john mccain. what is most remarkable about these two stories, and i could tell you many more, is how unremarkable they are. and thats because the name john mccain, based on the actions of the man john mccain had become a source of hope and inspiration for oppressed people throughout the world. as it was aid source of security for allied countries that share our values. one last...

He also fought and lost some big battles. to stop climate change, to close the gun show loophole, to broadly reform our immigration laws. but that nerve seemed to get him down or diminish his ardor for the next battle. he loved aid just cause, even if it didnt ksucceed. overall, he won more than he lost and all of his wins were achieved with bipartisan support. in 2008, when john was the republican nominee for president, he had this far-out idea of asking a democrat to be his running made. can y...

He ultimately turned these interfaith experiences into a truly hilarious comedy routine. it began with a solemn pronouncement by john that he was converting to judaism. then he explained much less solemnly, i do this not because of any particular liking for the religion, its just that for so many years ive had to go along with all of joes religious nonsense, i might as well convert and get the benefits. one of his favorite targets was the sabbath elevators in israeli hotels which are preprogramm...

And, again, these words were not just rhetoric for john. he acted on them. he lived them. in our travels around the world, i can tell you he always reassured our allies and unsettled our enemies. standing for americas best values, attacking totalitarian governments, whether in moscow, tehran, pyongyang or anyone where else. if we were going to a country that was not fully free, john insisted that we meet with the local human rights activists as well as the government. i will never forget that da...

Election as an independent, im still a registered democrat. and johns response was direct and really ennobling. thats the point, joe, he said with a certain impatience. youre a democrat. im a republican. we could give our country the bipartisan leadership it needs for a change. when john returned to the senate after his surgery last summer and voted against the republican health care bill, some people accused him of being disloyal to his party and the. the. but that was not the case. if you list...