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Today, Explained

The empty seat in Arizona

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Love him, hate him, or both, Senator John McCain will be remembered as a towering figure of American politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.0

Opening up Twitter Sunday morning was like entering a choose your own adventure

0:36.4

obituary for Senator John McCain.

0:38.8

There were people calling him a war hero.

0:41.0

There were people calling him a war criminal.

0:42.8

There were people talking about how noble a campaign he ran against Barack Obama in 2008,

0:48.5

and others saying how his selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate paved the way

0:54.6

for President Donald Trump.

0:56.9

I saw some reporter sharing stories of how decent he could be when you caught him alone

1:02.2

on his campaign tour bus or on an elevator in the Capitol building, and others were quick

1:07.8

to point out how he could be a total bully, how coarse he could be.

1:12.7

What's clear was this, Love and Marhadeem, Maverick or Hippocrite, John McCain will go down

1:18.8

as one of the most significant political figures of a generation, starting with Vietnam.

1:27.6

He was the son and grandson of Navy Admiral's, and he would joke about how he was, I think,

1:33.7

fifth from the bottom of his graduating class at the Naval Academy.

1:37.6

I was an undistinguished member of the class of 1958.

1:44.5

My superiors didn't hold me in very high esteem in those days, and I was his relief to

1:49.8

graduate fifth from the bottom of my class, as a Naval Academy was to see me go.

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