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To know their hopes and their fears, get to know their family before you meet them, you get to know how they feel about important things. we talked about everything except captivity and the loss of my family that just occurred, my wife and daughter, the only two things we didn't talk about. but, i found that it wasn't too long into john's duties that jill and i got married. jill is here with me today. five years, i had been a single dad and no man deserves one great love, let alone two. i met jill. it changed my life. she fell in love with him and he with her. he'd always call her jilly.

Tommy, i'm running for the u.s. senate, i'm going to launch blah, blah, blah. you know john, he was going 100 miles an hour. so i'm like okay. he says i want you to co-chair my campaign. i said, well, john, you know i'm a democrat. i'm not sure that's going to help you with your republican campaign. i don't care, you're my friend. i want you to co-chair it. i said, well, let me sleep on it. no. no, no. you give me an answer right now, yes or no. of course i said yes. once again, senator john mccain. goes over to the other side. and don't forget, i was -- we were not the most conservative organ...

>> my name is joe biden. [laughter] i'm a democrat. [laughter] and i loved john mccain. i have had the dubious honor over the years of giving some eulogies for a fine women and men, that i have in mind. but this one is hard. the three men who spoke before me capture of john, or aspects of john in a way that only

Comes to your lips before a tear to your eye. that's when you know. and i promise you, i give you my word, i promise you, this i know, that day will come. that day will come. you know, i'm sure my former colleagues, and all who worked with john, i'm sure there are people who said to you not only now but the last ten years, explain this guy to me. right? [laughter] explain this guy to me. because as i looked at him, in one sense but i admired, but in one sense, the way things changed in america, they looked at him as if john came from another age. they lived by a different code,

John and i ended up traveling and every time i went anywhere, i took john with me or he took me with him. we went to china, japan, russia, germany, france, england, all over the world. tens of thousands of miles. we were sitting on that plane and, late in the night when everyone else was asleep, we would just talk, getting to know one another. we talk about family, we talk about politics, we talk about international relations. we talk about promise, the promise of america. because we were both cockeyed optimists. we really believed there was not a single thing beyond the capacity of this count...