The Paradoxes of John McCain

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 27 August 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Senator John McCain was proud of his reputation as a maverick in American politics. Through pivotal moments in his life — as a prisoner of war, a young congressman, a presidential candidate, and, ultimately, an elder statesman — that reputation was both validated and challenged. Guests: Elisabeth Bumiller, the Washington bureau chief for The New York Times; Carl Hulse, The Times’s chief Washington correspondent; Mark Landler, who covers the White House for The Times; and Scott Shane, who writes about national security for The Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.
0:02.4	This is The Daily.
0:04.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:09.6	Today.
0:11.8	Senator John McCain was proud of his reputation as a rare maverick in American politics.
0:18.0	Through pivotal moments in his life, as a prisoner of war, a young congressman,
0:24.0	a presidential candidate, and ultimately an elder statesman,
0:28.3	that reputation was both validated and challenged.
0:32.8	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:44.1	It's Monday, August 27th.
0:51.1	It was October 1967, and John McCain was a Navy flyer.
0:56.7	Mark Landler covers the White House for the times.
0:59.6	He'd had a fairly undistinguished career up until this point.
1:03.0	He graduated near the bottom of his class at the US Naval Academy.
1:07.0	He was the son of Navy royalty, both his father and his grandfather were admirals.
1:12.4	But he hadn't really done a lot to justify the attention
1:15.7	up until this October day when he took his fighter plane on a bombing raid
1:21.1	of a power plant in downtown Hanoi.
1:23.6	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
1:28.4	We came in.
1:29.5	There was heavy and concentrated both anti-aircraft fire and surface-to-air missiles
1:37.0	for everywhere.
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