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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 don't 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. as his son can tell you in the navy, last one in, last one out. so i knew of john.

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 she's 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. john's absence is all consuming, for all of you right now. it's like being sucked into a black hole inside your chest...

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, my colleagues in the senate knew i

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. we'd talk about family. we'd talk about politics, we'd talk about international relations. we'd talk about promise, the promise of america. we were optimists and believe there's not a single thing, beyond the capacity of this country, for real, no...

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. that's senator john mccain. he keeps his word. that's the senator that we've had all these years that sometimes we beat up on. that's 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 it's him on the phone. i'm with father tony, a dear friend of mine, and they say he's -- you got the congressman on the phone. i don't know how he tracked me down, but w...