john mccain

     

Early life an military career House and Senate career, 1982–2000 2000 presidential campaign Senate career, 2001–present 2008 presidential campaign Cultural and political image Political positions

Trivia about john mccain

  • Laura Bush had good reason to root for this Arizonan in 2008; he's her sixth cousin
  • In 2010 this Arizonan won a fifth 6-year term to the Senate
  • Now an Arizona senator, he spent 5 1/2 years in Vietnam as a POW
  • This presidential candidate wrote, "I voted for first TARP but that doesn't mean I voted to bail out AIG"
  • This senator's U.S. Navy career lasted from 1958 to 1981
  • Elected in 1986, this Arizona senator was born in the Panama Canal Zone
  • He's seen here with his dad, the admiral, after returning from his Vietnam ordeal
  • This Arizona senator & presidential candidate was a P.O.W. for 5 1/2 years during the Vietnam War
  • After Barry Goldwater retired in 1987, this man took over his Senate seat
  • Bush-Cheney called Edwards Kerry's second choice, meaning this Republican was his first
  • On Feb. 1, 2000 he defeated George W. Bush in the New Hampshire primary
  • Asked about being a VP, he said he was in a N. Vietnam prison in the dark & fed scraps & he wouldn't want to do that again
  • In 2000 this Arizona senator's "Straight Talk Express" ran off the rails after the GOP primaries
  • An admiral's son, he held up under torture in North Vietnam, even refusing early release
  • (Hi. I'm Tim Russert of NBC's Meet the Press.) An interview I did in 2000 with this senator & former P.O.W. won an excellence in TV journalism award
  • A former Vietnam War P.O.W., he succeeded Barry Goldwater as a U.S. Senator from Arizona on January 6, 1987
  • The grandfather & father of this P.O.W./politician are the USA's only father & son to each be a full admiral
  • The gal seen here is sweet on this presidential candidate
  • The bipartisan campaign reform act of 2001 was co-sponsored by Wisconsin senator Russ Feingold & this Arizonan
  • The title of Ralph Nader's article on this GOP man was "The Maverick Gunning for the Oval Office"
  • Politician heard here reading from his 1999 bestseller:("As my days in captivity lengthened, the man whose example had led me to Vietnam stood at the summit of his long naval career...")
  • This presidential hopeful said "I screwed up" after skipping out on a David Letterman taping in 2008
  • "Country first" (that one didn't work)
  • This Ariz. senator said of Bush's energy plan, "Just one pork barrel project larded onto another"
  • 1986:Replaces Arizona's Barry Goldwater
  • This senior senator from Arizona serves on the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs