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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 she's 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, and so hollowing, and john's absence is all-consuming for all of you right now. it's like being s...

Said it, that's great, we loved it. john was like, good to see you, thank you. so we went in and he said, i'm 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 really did. not a coincidence, it didn't become friends with just the best players but the best pe...

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 he's in his presidential campaign. we end up in las vegas with his two right-hand folks that have always run his campaign's, which i have the greatest respect for. so we did a quick chitchat and, john says, i want you to speak on my behalf at the republican convention. [laughter] and i said senator, i want to remind you that i am...

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 was chairman of the european subcommittee so i spent a lot of

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. that's the senator that we have 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, with father tony, a dear friend of mine. and he said, you have the congressman on the phone, i don't know how you tracked him down but he is on a restaurant a restaurant....