tearful eulogy today in honor of her late father, but also took a few jabs at a person unnamed but everyone kind of puts it together, the president of the united states. by contrasting her father s legacy with the conduct and rhetoric of the trump presidency. i am here before you today saying the words i have never wanted to say. giving the speech i have never wanted to give. feeling the loss i have never wanted to feel. my father is gone. john sidney mccain iii was many things. he was a sailor. he was an aviator. he was a husband. he was a warrior. he was a prisoner. he was a hero. he was a congressman. he was a senator. he was a nominee for president of the united states. these are all the titles and the roles of a life that has been
the wreck badge of the u.s. b-52 bomber, a testament to the extraordinary legacy of john mccain, that the vietnamese now admire and mourn man once sent to bomb their cities ana is really is dramatic when you look at the evolution of the relationship between vietnam and the u.s. since the war to today when the u.s. ambassador describes the relationship as one of friendship and partnership and credits mccain himself with being central to the improvement of that bilateral relationship. meanwhile, the foreign minister of vietnam describes mcmahon as part of a generation of lawmakers and veterans who helped heal the wounds between two countries that were once adversaries. ana.
six inches away from my face screaming, relax, relax, and then president obama also was saying saying seldom a day went by in his presidency when john mccain did not give him a lecture or disagreement, but he also allowed that they had private conversations, and of course there are differences in policy. that is, you know, always been true. but what s different now is just the tribal nature and the coarse nature. there s just not a bipartisan spirit. so i think that s what senator mccain wanted to develop, at least for a day today. let me play a clip from president obama. listen. so much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse can seem small. and mean. and petty. trafficking in bombast and insult and phony controversies
and, for lack of other word, classy woman, and i think she thought it was important that she pay tribute and honor to someone i think she does believe is a hero. maybe her father doesn t or maybe her father just, you know, used that to sort of prop himself up, but i think she does recognize the contributions that john mccain gave to this country, both in sacrifice and service, and i think she probably thought it was important that she be there for that. at the end of the day, does this change washington at all? you know, i was there, and i was looking around the national cathedral at all of these incredible people from politics, from media, from history, and from mccain s family and i thought, gosh, if this can t do
next to democrats there, chuck schumer, the senate democratic leader, so i think throughout the partisan labels were dropped for a day, at least, as washington came together to celebrate john mccain. david, is there a moment that stands out most to you? well, look, that searing, searing eulogy that you played at the top of the hour, excerpts of it, from meghan mccain was just overwhelming. and you know, i think you saw echos of her father in her remarks. she was both tender and tough. she talked about him as a father, as a person, but also talked about what he represented as a leader and delivered, you know, what was an unmistakable blow at the prevailing politics of washington and the politics of president trump. there was a very tender moment later when the renee fleming,