Opponents and you sat down with hillary clinton who was at times a political opponent, with whom he became drinking buddies, so here were her comments. 2008, for a long time people thought you were going to go up against each other. we both respected each other, we worked with each other, and in that campaign that eventually did happen with senator mccain running against then senator obama, i so respected john. you know when his supporters got carried away and started making racial and religious comments, he would just shut them down. he did, and it did take a very different turn because of
After labor day, i ll go back to the senate and i ll try to be as persistent as ted was. and as passionate for the work. i know i m privileged to serve there. but i think most of my colleagues would agree, place won t be the same without him. that was senator john mccain, you ll guysing his friend ted kennedy, the two larger than life figures died on the same date, august 25th, nine years apart of the same type of brain cancer. john mccain was so unique. he was hard to describe. somehow though his long time friend and aide and collaborator, mark salter always finds a way to put mccain s complicated essence into beautiful prose and did it again this morning writing in the washington post, he was relent less and quick tempered and he was defiant in defeat and sometimes in victory too.
He didn t have sides his mother said, meaning different faces for different occasions. he was all he was all of the time. i ve spoken to many of senator mccain s friends and colleagues over the year. here s how they describe him. he s like a shark. he can t stop moving, which keeps him who he is and he s he s hard to keep up with. all of our international travels he would be the one up reading his briefing book while the rest of us would be passed out sleeping. first one off the plane, first one into a meeting, that s just who he is. tell me about his sense of humor. there are people really great at funny stories and i don t see john as a story teller as much as i am a one liner and just just quit wit. exactly. he loves to laugh. he loves humor, little known fact about john mccain, if you just give him the slightest provocation, he ll go into a
Standing by him at the rally that s we would arrive as reporters and there would be people screaming obscenities and press and the sort of anger of that campaign really spiked i mean, it s nothing compared to what everybody saw later with trump years later but there was a real sense among john mccain s campaign driven by john mccain himself that he had to tamp that down and again and again and again it was the most memorable moment. he would try to do that. it was simmering then, he tried to tamp it down but it since exploded. thank you all for your insights and for coming in. i appreciate it very much. up next, we re going to talk to mccain s closest colleagues about their personal stories remembering john mccain. as king midas, i here, you will too.nt. your oil change comes with a tire rotation as well. ooo! i could put that on an airplane banner.
Though we ve come a long way from the old injustices that once stained our nation s reputation and denied some americans the full blessings of american citizenship, the memory of them still had the power to wound. mccain worked closely with president obama s secretary of state, hillary clinton. they had been colleagues in the senate and traveled extensively together and became good friends. i spoke with her about their time together. we did have a chance to really share some of the experiences that come with being at the highest levels of american politics. is there something that stuck with you about the conversations that you had about those experiences at the highest level of politics? john and i started traveling together on his very famous senate he liked to tryout different colleagues to see whether they were good traveling companions. and i admit to being a little surprised when he first
Great campaign because we both respected each other and worked with each other. and in that campaign, that eventually did happen, with senator mccain running against then senator obama, i so respected john. you know, when his supporters got carried away and started making racial or religious comments about then senator obama or mrs. obama. he would just shot him down. he s an arab. he s not no, ma am. no, ma am. he s a decent family man citizen that i just happen to have disagreements with. he would not go along with that kind of talk. what did that tell you about john mccain? it was so in keeping with who john mccain is. john believes so deeply in fundamental fairness. he could he can get really wrougt up and be upset with people and sometimes say things he later regrets. did that ever happen with
The sort of tribalism in the senate in the way in which our modern politics and countries deeply dividing the partisan way, he pressed me to get to know younger senators, senators of my generation who are republicans to travel with him, to legs late with him and work with him and get to know their families and respect them. one of the great friendships in the senate was between joe biden, my predecessor and john mccain. they knew each other and served alongside each other more than 40 years and the speech given last year at the national constitution center when former vice president biden introduced senator mccain and senator mccain accepted the medal is one of the most moving exchanges, speeches i ve ever heard. it should be required viewing at every high school in america. i agree, you and i were both there. i want to ask a bit of business if you will, the democratic leader, chuck schumer, you probably heard wants to rename the russell office building. you have your office there and mccain had his office there for
And barack obama will deliver eulogies, something i m told each asked to do before he died. two men who at different times kept mccain from becoming president. in a statement president obama wrote, few of us have been tested the way john was once or required to show the kind of courage that he did. but all of us can aspire to the courage and put the greater good above our own. at john s best, he showed us what that means and for that, we are all in his debt. and from president george w. bush, some lives are so vivid it is difficult to imagine them ended. some voices are so vibrant, it is hard to think of them still. he was a public servant in the finest traditions of our country and to me he was a friend whom i ll deeply miss. and mccain spent years going aout of his bway to take senatos in both parties under his riwin.
Lot of errors but served his country and i hope we could add honorably. amid the national outpouring of sympathy for john mccain s family is a tweet from president trump, my deepist sympathies and hearts and prayers are with you. to say donald trump and john mccain never hit it off is probably the most polite way of describing the relationship. the president is not expected to attend mccain s funeral. we can talk about that and a lot more, the washington post josh daucy, julie her shaw davis and michael sheer and jackie kucinich from the daily beast. josh, you had a story in the paper this weekend, the washington post, and write among the things you discussed is the following, they are increasingly combative relationship has served as a metaphor of sorts for the
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