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President of the united states. >> i had the honor of calling senator barack obama to congratulate him -- please. >> true to form, mccain marked the moment's history for the country. a century ago president theodore roosevelt's invitation of booker t. washington to dine at the white house was taken as an outrage in many quarters. america today say world away from the cruel and prideful bigotry of that time. there is no better evidence of this than the election of an african-american to the presidency of the united states. >> what a moment. and john rose to the occasion and said he is my presid...

Months. >> so those are averages, you know. you're not average. i said let me put it near wanot way, john, everybody knows you're abnormal. so we're counting on that. >> i'm sure he appreciated that. >> he has called me three times this morning. no more whoa as me, lindsey. he is yelling at me and to buck up. so i'm going to buck up. >> mccain paraphrased his hero teddy roosevelt's approach to mortality. >> there's two ways of looking at these things, and one of them is to celebrate. i'm able to celebrate a wonderful life and i will be grateful for additional time that i have. >> additional ti...

Happy. we were overjoyed. but we didn't want to betray a great deal of emotion. >> john warner was there when mccain saw his admiral father for the first time. >> i remember him coming down off the gangway, difficulty having walking and walking up and just commander mccain, sir, reporting for duty. it was a very moving moment. >> the relentless beatings had taken a toll. >> you still see the impact of that today, the way he was tied, the way he can't raise his arms, his hands, can't comb his hair. the things that we take for granted. >> when i think about that healthcare vote when he went in t...

-- bangladesh. >> there's nothing you can do. >> it had a major impact on mccain. he lost the 2000 primary and vowed to avoid personal attacks in his future races. >> i knew how painful it had been for him with the attacks on his family. >> hillary clinton became a senator not long after mccain's 2000 presidential loss. >> he obviously at that time was coming off of a particularly vicious and brutal and personal campaign, especially for his family. you know a thing or two about that. >> i do. he was truly just soldiering on. it wasn't like we sat down and just, you know, poured forth our feeli...

The gallery. >> friend and fellow senator amy clob bu char remembers his wife's raw emotion, out of sight of the cameras but audible inside the chamber. >> she's sitting up there knowing he has this terminal diagnosis, and then he stands there and seizes the moment again. >> we're getting nothing done, my friends, we're getting nothing done. >> friends say even before he got sick, mccain had grown more and more frustrated with senate dysfunction. >> we keep trying to find a way to win without help from across the aisle. >> his grim diagnosis was like a license to let it out. >> the senate is c...