Right and right and right and right and right and right and right and right.

Fittingly, he died a hero's death.

When John Sidney became the third, Naval Aviator, Prisoner of War, Giant of the Senate,

and former Republican presidential nominee, at last succumbed to a brain tumor in August

2018.

He was hailed as an American original.

The man who defeated him for the presidency in 2008, Barack Obama, was eloquent and

admiring, saying, few of us have been tested the way John once was.

Or required to show the kind of courage that he did.

But all of us can aspire to the courage to put the greater good above our own.

At John's best, he showed us what that means.

The most notable eulogy for the legendary senator, however, would come not from a president,

but from a daughter, Megan McCain, who spoke from the lectern of Washington National Cathedral

to a nation led not by the kind of man her father had been.

But by Donald Trump, the incumbent president who had repeatedly belittled Senator McCain's

life and work.

In July 2015, Trump had said this about McCain.

He's not a war hero.

He was a war hero because he was captured.

I like people who weren't captured.

In March 2019, Trump said, I was never a fan of John McCain, and I never will be.

Trump also attacked the senator for voting to sustain health care coverage for Americans,

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