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Looked like his drove by, you did a u-turn and you chased it. >> how long did that go on? >> that went on until they found his car. >> which, more than three months later, turned out to be at the airport. so did he just take off? his close friend didn't think so. >> if he got on a plane and he -- maybe he wanted to do something different and i was like, no, he wouldn't do that. >> for one thing, david had been preparing for the arrival in two weeks of his 5-year-old son john. this was a big one, a month-long summer visit. >> he was preparing for this visit? >> oh, yeah, he wanted everything pe...

Shadow he was out. it was a setback he felt diminished. >> and other devastating setback also greatly impacted him the death of his beloved father joseph. >> joseph kennedy the family patriarch who believed as a second generation irish-american just off the boat that he would build the greatest political dynasty this country ever had and putting a family member into the white house. >> after chappaquiddick he suffered a debilitating stroke confining him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life after the murder of his son john and robert joseph had to witness a last surviving son threat in the ...

Selected by john mccain personally in the year since his diagnosis, including asking his good friend former vice president joe biden to deliver one of today's eulogies. their friendship reflected in their last public appearance together almost one year ago. >> i hope he has heard my profession of gratitude for him. >> it was always duty, honor, country. that's john. john understands what it means to sacrifice for what you believe in. to put the greater good ahead of personal feelings. >> good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. as friends and family in arizona and throughout the ...

That he spent time, the last number of months, john mccain did, deciding what these ceremonies should be, who should speak, because he knew that in doing so he was basically writing another chapter of his autobiography. everything we see and hear today and in the next couple of days will be very much of his own choosing. almost everything they say is john mccain from the grave trying to send a message. and one thing that is absolutely heartbreaking to me, we were talking, all of us, but the fact that these are going to be pretty bipartisan events, those ten democrats coming out this morning, a...

John weaver, first of all, thank you for being here. >> thank you, andrea. >> this has been such a difficult passage, joyful at times, but overwhelmingly sad, because of the loss of this man, a singular voice in american life, american politics. >> i received a message from jack mccain, his son, who is a graduate of the naval academy and who is serving our country. he said, john, don't be said, you know the old man, he would like us to get back in the good fight. that's how i'll remember him. not that we need to be reminded to get back in the good fight because we're all mccainiacs, but come m...