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Was going 100 miles an hour. so i said okay. and he said, i want you to cochair my campaign. and i said john, you know i'm a democrat. [laughter] i'm not sure that's going to help you with your republican campaign. and he said, i don't care, you're my friend, i want you to cochair. i said, let me sleep on it. and he said no, give me an answer right now, yes or no. and of course i said yes. once again, senator john mccain. he goes over to the other side. and don't forget, i was an activist back then. we were not the most conservative organization in the country. and we go back and forth with --...

And i said yes, i will be there. he had a big smile on his face and he said, watch out when you start your car. [laughter] and i said, okay senator. i will do that. so john kind of put me out on the national scene, and i must confess he did a number of things that i could see and hear all day and share with you, different stories. i will tell you that the one time we met was when megan was on the tv program, and he said, you know megan's on tv now. okay. do you see her?

Unfortunately from the experience. there is nothing anyone can say or do to ease the pain right no now. but i pray, i pray you take some comfort knowing that because you shared john with all of us your whole life, the world now shares with you the eighth of john's death. look around this magnificent church. look what you saw at the state capitol yesterday. it's hard to stand there, but part of it was, or at least it was with me with beau, you know it was genuine and deep, he touched so many lives.

As an office, it used to be on the basement floor. members of the military who are assigned to the senators when they travel abroad, they meet with heads of state or other foreign dignitaries. john had been recently released from the hanoi, and he was a hero. he came to me and for some reason we hit it off in the beginning. we were both full of dreams and ambitions, and an overwhelming desire to make the time we had there worthwhile. try to do the right thing, think about how we could make things better for the country we love so much.

Faith in the country and their faith in god. i looked out into the audience they are in my hometown and those were some of my peers and the peers of my parents. those were tough independent guys, they were ranchers and farmers, there were some cowboy cowboys, businessmen, entrepreneurs and they were crying. they saw in john mccain a little bit of what they hope to see in themselves. they saw in john mccain the embodiment of values that they hoped to see for the country. over the next few months and years, john got to know this place, and he fell in love with arizona. he loved the people, our d...