accompanying him. there will be powerful eulogies from two former presidents and others. i m looking forward near the end of the service, the great opera singer renee fleming will do a musical reflection, danny boy, in honor, in memory of senator mccain. right, which we understand is one of his favorite songs. he picked it. and here we have the presidents, former presidents together. former president barack obama and michelle obama, former president george w. bush and laura bush, former president bill clinton and former secretary of state hillary clinton. and of all those, hillary clinton is close to senator mccain. they formed a huge bond in the
we are told the two former presidents george w. bush and barack obama are already inside the cathedral. we haven t seen them yet. we are told they are there. the vips as well as so many of the friends the long-time staffers, those that worked with senator mccain over the years. can you see george w. bush, former president barack obama, michelle oup ba. they are now inside. they are greeting some of the other was have been invited. hillary clinton is there. the former first lady, former senator al gore. you saw him. the former vice president. a lot of dig fitaries are there. a lot of vips, jamie gangel arc lot of democrats and a lot of republicans. right. we know also former president bill clinton is there. foreman secretary of state. there s bill clinton. we know that vice president joe biden and his wife jill are
to us. while we mourn his death, our faith tells us that beyond this life there is indeed more life. and god never let s us go. so as the old prayer says, we gather to give thanks for all the goodness and courage that have passed from john mccain s life into the lives of others and have left the world a richer, better place. for his life s task faithfully and honorably discharged for good humor, gracious affection, kindly generosity. for sadness met without surrender, and weakness endured without defeat. may the lord bless him and keep him this day and always. thank you.
they said hillary clinton, they will be there at the national he will be chosen for a eulogy, i think it makes sense he picked bush and obama, both their reputations are sky high with integrity factor. the fact that senator mccain was a very, very committed conservative and but what he believed was that even if you disagree on many, many things, there are also things you might agree on and you ought to be able to work on those things together even if you disagree on many other things. that is an important lesson again has been lost in recent times and i think he s trying to rekindle through the you think about all those many miles that he travels with hillary clinton, all those trips they took towing. you know, work on issues like climb change, one of his favorite stories was having a shot contest with her, drink vodka in estonia, lindsay
my conversation with senator mccain, he lamented the lost spirit of comedy and service that came with the fading of the world war ii and vietnam generation and he expressed hope that the new one coming into leadership would provide a renewed sense of compromise of putting country above party. he had a band of brothers in the senate that served in vietnam. john kerry, chuck haggle of nebraska, chuck rob of cleveland and others that served in vietnam that used that as their political platform. so the fact that they were able do that he is looking for people from iraq and afghanistan to continue that position. i want to continue on one thing jeff was saying. it was also important to him in this service for that sense ofen fun and gregariousness that was