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LOGAN ROY:
I want a broadcast network.
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And I wanna see what other
news operations we can sweep up.
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Local TV?
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Why shouldn't we do
all the news?
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ROMAN ROY:
Well, Kim Jong-Pop,
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that's not how things work
in this country.
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KENDALL ROY:
If he's not careful,
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he's gonna destroy the company.
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Anyway, are you
gonna do something?
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I think I'm the best option.
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Oh, right, 'cause you like
playing boss?
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This is my vision. I take over.
You two, under me.
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Take out the old man,
in with the new guard.
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It's rebellion!
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It's my company.
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You are a nobody.
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John McCain:
I have lived an honorable life,
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and I am proud of my life.
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I think all of us
think about death,
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but I think more about life.
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There are so many days
in my life
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that are more
than coincidental,
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that it has made me believe
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that I am here for a reason.
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I've been tested
on a number of occasions.
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I haven't always done
the right thing.
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And I think I understand,
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given my family's history
and given my experiences,
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the important thing is not
to look back and figure out
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all the things
I should've done,
and there's lots of those...
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but to look back
with gratitude.
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You will never talk to anyone
that is as fortunate
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as John McCain.
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John:
You ready or not?
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You ready
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One, two...
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Cindy:
Isn't she so great?
I love that.
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Yeah, just look at her.
Yeah.
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Come on, honey, come on.
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Come on.
That's a girl.
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John: Come on.
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Come on.
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Yup.
Cindy: Bring the ball.
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It's all right.
Come on, Burma.
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Come on, Burma.
Come on, honey.
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Jack McCain:
I got a phone call
from my mom that said,
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"Jack, you're gonna see
some stuff in the news."
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Um, "Your father
has brain cancer.
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Um...
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"I'm with him right now.
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"He knows his diagnosis,
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and he's the same
as he's always been."
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He said, "All right,
let's push forward."
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John:
You know, these doctors
keep talking to me
about people
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who if you tell 'em the truth,
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then they just give up and die,
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that you really want to--
and I... I keep saying to 'em,
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"Just tell me.
Just tell me.
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That's all I want to know."
You know?
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Some say,
"Well, it's not good."
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And then they'll say, "Well..."
You know, its just bullshit,
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and it really drives me crazy.
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But then I talk
to other doctor friends
of mine and say
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that most people,
that's not what
they want to hear.
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I-- Why wouldn't
they want to hear, you know?
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Why wouldn't they want to spend
a few more days here, you know?
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Yes, honey, I'll throw
the ball in a minute.
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Meghan McCain:
He's better in Arizona,
I think, health-wise,
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but we sort of collectively
made the decision
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that if he doesn't work,
that he would...
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he would probably
get sick faster,
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because work feeds him
and it's so much of
a part of who he is,
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so I'm very supportive
of him being in DC.
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John:
All right, guys,
good morning, good morning.
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Good morning, good morning.
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Good morning.
Good morning.
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Hup! Back! Back!
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Come on!
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Come on!
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Good morning.
You can-- you can--
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Cameraman:
Good morning, Senator.
John: Good morning.
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How are you,
my friend from TMZ?
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Cameraman:
Did you watch
the football game
last night?
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Yes, I did. That's why
I'm in such a bad mood
this morning.
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Well, I hope
things get better.
John: Thank you.
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How about that catch
from Larry Fitzgerald?
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Mark Salter:
He's authentic.
He can't help himself.
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Sometimes his authenticity is
a political problem,
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and other times
it's a great advantage.
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David Brooks:
None of us like to be
unpopular in our workplace,
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and I've seen McCain be
unpopular time and time again,
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sometimes for excellent reasons,
sometimes for not great reasons.
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Lindsey Graham:
We don't always agree.
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I've got a job to do,
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he's got a job to do,
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but I never doubt his motivation
as to why he's doing it.
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John:
We're not gonna bet against
the United States of America.
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You know?
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Hillary Clinton:
He tries to study an issue,
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he tries to come to a conclusion
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that's in keeping
with his values
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but, also, you know,
rooted in reality.
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Now it's 3,500 troops,
all this kind of stuff.
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Grant Woods:
He knows this is not
a straight line in life.
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There's gonna be
curves and corners,
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and that's the way it goes.
Nobody's perfect.
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You're gonna make mistakes.
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The question is: How do you
handle those mistakes?
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John:
What's going on in Syria?
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Yes, good morning.
How are you? Good morning.
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Joe Lieberman:
I wouldn't bet against him.
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He faces his mortality now
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with the same...
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kind of fearlessness
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that has characterized his life.
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We're gonna keep
people waiting here.
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Man:
I'm gonna grab
the elevator right over here.
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Salter:
If you want
to really know him,
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his favorite book is
For Whom the Bell Tolls,
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and the protagonist in that,
Robert Jordan,
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goes to fight
in the Spanish civil war.
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And he knows that
it's a hopeless cause,
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and yet he gives
his life for it.
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Man:
Senator McCain?
John: Yeah?
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Army nominee, secretary, are
we gonna get a hearing soon?
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Salter:
That's a very McCain-esque view
of himself in the world.
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The harder the cause, even lost,
the better the cause.
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Man: Senator,
on health care--
I gotta go.
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When I was 12 years old,
I found a four-leaf clover.
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I went to my father's library
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to put that four-leaf clover
in a book.
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I started reading that book,
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and I was mesmerized,
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and I didn't stop reading
until I was finished.
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It is still the lodestone,
the guide that I have,
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and it's called
For Whom the Bell Tolls.
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Robert Jordan is my hero,
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then when I was that age,
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and Robert Jordan
is my hero today.
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Nothing is better than a story
of someone who sacrifices
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for causes greater
than themselves,
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and Robert Jordan was that.
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I was born on the 29th
of August, 1936,
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at a naval base
in the Panama Canal Zone.
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My family goes back
militarily all the way
to the Revolutionary War.
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And my life seemed
to be charted out for me.
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I did feel pressure,
from the time I was
very small, to do well.
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As a young man in going
to the Naval Academy,
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I was following
in the footsteps
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of my father
and my grandfather.
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Yes, I was once one of you,
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six decades ago,
in the age of sail.
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I was...
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I was an undistinguished member
of the class of 1958.
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My superiors didn't hold me
in very high esteem
in those days.
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Their disapproval was measured
in the hundreds of miles
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of extra duty I marched
in my time here.
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But I realized
a little later in life
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that I hadn't fully appreciated
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all that the academy
was trying to teach me.
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Lessons about sacrificing
for something more important
than yourself.
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Lessons about courage
and humility.
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God only knows how I graduated
from the Naval Academy.
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I didn't enjoy studying.
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I just knew what
I had to do to get by.
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There's no doubt
that I was a rebel
and always breaking the rules.
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Everybody knew
who my father was,
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and so, I'd thumb
my nose at 'em.
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But at the same time,
I didn't want to embarrass
my family.
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John's father just emanated
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power and strength.
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One day, his father
came down on a Saturday
to take us to lunch,
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and for some reason
they got into a bit
of an argument.
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John was walking
at a fast pace,
swinging his left arm,
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and I remember
his father was walking
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the same way,
swinging his left arm.
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I said, "These guys
are so much alike."
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They're combatants
with a penchant for leadership.
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It was just a natural ability.
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You can't teach
that kind of leadership.
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You have to be born with that.
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Admiral McCain,
what would you say
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about the importance
of leadership in the Navy?
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Leadership is the single
most important factor
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as far as achievement, success,
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and the completion
of a job to be done.
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And furthermore,
you have got to have
a tolerance
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for the failings
of individuals
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because all of us
have them.
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My father was
a submarine commander
in World War II in the Pacific.
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My grandfather was
the commander of the aircraft
carriers in the Pacific.
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But I always knew that I was
gonna be a naval aviator.
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I was gonna go out there
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and fly airplanes
and shoot down MiGs.
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Newsman:
So far in 1967,
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the number of US troops
killed in Vietnam has
nearly doubled.
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Airpower is the one thing
we most conspicuously have
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and the enemy has not.
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John:
During that period of time,
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they decided to escalate
the air war over North Vietnam.
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We started striking targets
inside Hanoi,
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which we had never done before.
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I got over the target
and rolled in,
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and just as I released
my bombs,
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a missile took the wing
off the airplane...
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so I ejected.
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When I hit the airstream,
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it broke my arms
and also my leg.
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Strangely enough,
I landed in a lake
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in the center
of the city of Hanoi.
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Someone took a picture
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of the Vietnamese pulling me
out of the water...
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and they were not happy.
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One of 'em stabbed me
with a bayonet
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and another one
smashed my shoulder.
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And then some
North Vietnamese Army came
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and they took me
to the prison camp
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that we called
the Hanoi Hilton.
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David Brinkley:
Yesterday over Hanoi,
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three American planes
were shot down
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and at least two
of their pilots captured.
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One of them was
Lieutenant Commander
John McCain III,
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the son of the US
naval commander in Europe.
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Boy: Okay?
Boy 2: Go.
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Doug McCain:
I came in from school one day,
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and my mother was sitting
at the kitchen table,
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crying, and I said,
"What's the matter?"
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And she said,
"Well, your father's
been shot down.
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"And that's all
I know right now,
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but I expect to hear more
from your granddad pretty soon."
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♪ ♪
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Carol McCain:
When I first found out,
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I didn't understand
it all myself.
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I was dumb and happy.
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I didn't really understand
what it was all about.
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It never occurred to me
that anything
would happen to him.
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He was always
kind of invincible in my mind.
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Joe McCain:
I got a call
in the middle of the night,
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and my father and mother
were both on the phone,
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which was very unusual.
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Usually one would call me,
not the other.
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And they told me
that John had been shot down.
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And I remember pausing,
and I said,
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"Well, what do we do now?"
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And my father said,
"We just pray for the boy."
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John:
It's hard to describe
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the military heritage
of my family.
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Yes, my dad was
worried about me,
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but the fact is, he knew
that McCains were doing
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what McCains were bred to do.
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And if it takes you
into harm's way,
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that is our profession.
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The injuries
that I experienced
were severe,
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and they said,
"We'll give you medical help
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if you'll give us information."
I said, "I can't."
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A few hours later,
the interrogator
came in and said,
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"Your father is a big admiral."
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And I said, "Yes."
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He said,
"We're gonna take you
to the hospital."
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Carol:
I got a letter
from a Frenchman
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who said he'd been
in North Vietnam
and he'd seen John.
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Interviewer:
What is your name?
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Lieutenant Commander
John McCain.
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Carol:
He'd made
a film about him.
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He gave me a copy of it.
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John's folks watched it,
I watched it.
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Interviewer:
Who is your father?
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Yes, his name is
Admiral John McCain.
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And his dad kept telling me,
"Carol, this could be years."
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I didn't believe that,
but he kept telling me,
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it could be years
before he gets home.
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I would just like to tell...
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my wife...
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that I... will get well...
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and I love her...
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and I hope to see her soon.
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And I'd appreciate it
if you'd tell her.
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One day, the interrogator
came in and he said,
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"Our doctors tell me that
you are not getting well."
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They took me into a room
with two other Americans.
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They wanted me to die there
rather than in the hospital,
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and those two literally
nursed me back to health.
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And the love and affection
that both of those guys
bestowed on me
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was something
I will never ever forget.
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But as soon as the Vietnamese
found out I could walk,
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the next day, I found myself
alone in the cell.
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♪ ♪
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I was about two
and a half years
in solitary confinement.
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Solitary confinement's
great strength is
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it makes the person
feel alone.
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And when you're alone,
then you don't have
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the encouragement,
the camaraderie, the strength.
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There's a reason
why throughout history
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they have used
solitary confinement.
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And then one day,
I was taken up
to interrogation.
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There was a guy there--
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erudite, spoke perfect French,
perfect English.
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I sat down,
and there was cigarettes
and there was tea.
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And finally he said,
"Well, you know,
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"everybody wants you
to go home
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because the doctors say
that you can't live."
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And I said,
"Our code of conduct says
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that we go
by order of capture."
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He said,
"Except for sick and injured."
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And I said, "But I'm not
that sick and injured.
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"I'm getting better,
I can get around,
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"and I know what this is.
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I know it's
for propaganda."
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And he kicked over
the chair behind him,
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and then he said,
"They taught you too well,"
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and walked out
and slammed the door,
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leaving me and one
of the interrogators
in dead silence
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for about two minutes,
and he said,
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"Things will be very bad
for you now, McCain."
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♪ ♪
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And the fun began.
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John Fer:
We call it either
the bar and strap
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or the bar and ropes treatment,
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and that has to do
with putting my arms,
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with my wrists opposed,
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behind my back
and fastened with handcuffs.
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They took the strap
and they tied it
to the handcuffs.
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Each time
he laced that strap,
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he pulled and pulled
and pulled until my arms
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are virtually parallel
to one other and touching.
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♪ ♪
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John McCain:
They were really, really rough.
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I mean, to the point
where they re-broke my arm,
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they did all kinds of stuff.
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It was so bad that I thought
I was gonna die,
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and so I wrote out
a confession,
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a war crimes confession,
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and I will be ashamed
and embarrassed
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about that for my whole life.
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♪ ♪
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I was aware that
they were gonna use it
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for propaganda purposes,
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and I thought about
the honor of my family.
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00:19:40,750 --> 00:19:42,500
Henry Kissinger:
I knew his father.
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His father was
Pacific Fleet commander,
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so all the military action
we ordered in Vietnam
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was carried out by him.
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But I never heard
Admiral McCain
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talk to the president
about his son.
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It would be against
the code of honor
of the McCains.
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Joe:
My dad never talked about John,
and he especially never asked
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anybody to do anything
for him or about it.
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♪ ♪
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But Dad made a practice
every year that he was
commander in chief.
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On Christmas,
he would helicopter to the DMZ,
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where the North
and South Vietnamese
were officially divided,
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and he would walk away
from those escorting him,
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and he would just look
across that border,
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trying to somehow feel John
or send a message to him.
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00:20:35,875 --> 00:20:39,041
I want you to understand
that for those of you--
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and there are many
in this command--
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who will spend this
Christmas away from home
and your loved ones,
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that what you have done
and the sacrifices
that you have made
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in the pursuit
of your individual duties
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will more than make up
for this separation.
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♪ ♪
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Sidney McCain:
I was a year and a month
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when he was shot down.
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My recollection of him is
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next to zero.
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It was my mom
and my brothers and I
for a really long time.
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Those memories I have.
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John Laurence:
Mrs. McCain has received
several letters
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from her captured husband
but none in six months.
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00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:25,250
Carol:
The most recent one I have
was written last June.
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It says, "Dear Carol,
I hope you can still think
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"of the really great times
we had together.
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"It is time
for our fifth anniversary
this year,
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and I am hoping
I will see you soon."
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00:21:35,625 --> 00:21:37,834
Laurence:
How does he sound
in that letter?
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He sounds kind of depressed
to me when he says,
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"I hope you can still think
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of the really good times
we had together."
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00:21:46,375 --> 00:21:48,875
It sounds like he--
you know, he's worried
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that I might forget
or something,
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and that bothers me,
it makes me feel very badly.
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There isn't any way
I could possibly forget.
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Carol: You know what?
You don't really know
but in your heart,
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you're like, "Of course
he's gonna come back.
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He told me
he's coming back."
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00:22:03,375 --> 00:22:04,750
Laurence:
Doug, how long
do you think
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that the Vietnamese
are gonna keep your
daddy prisoner?
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00:22:08,166 --> 00:22:10,917
Probably till
the war's over.
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00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,625
Laurence:
How long will that be?
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Probably until summer.
404
00:22:16,250 --> 00:22:19,333
To me, nothing else
mattered materially
405
00:22:19,417 --> 00:22:22,000
other than I was told
my dad is still alive.
406
00:22:22,083 --> 00:22:25,000
Laurence: Do you think,
it'll be over sooner, huh?
407
00:22:25,083 --> 00:22:27,709
We want it to be
over sooner.
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00:22:30,333 --> 00:22:31,750
Laurence:
Because?
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We just want him back.
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♪ ♪
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John:
After about four years,
they changed the treatment
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and put us into
large rooms with,
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say, 20 or 25 in each cell.
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00:22:51,208 --> 00:22:53,875
The beatings stopped
and there was clearly a change
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00:22:53,959 --> 00:22:56,125
in policy
towards the prisoners.
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00:22:57,709 --> 00:23:01,875
Fer:
All of a sudden
on the 18th of December,
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the whole sky just lit up
with explosions,
418
00:23:06,417 --> 00:23:10,375
and from then,
round-the-clock bombing.
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♪ ♪
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Kissinger:
The Christmas bombing
was the use
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00:23:14,458 --> 00:23:19,542
of B-52s against
tactical targets in Hanoi.
422
00:23:19,625 --> 00:23:23,291
President Nixon decided,
and I agreed,
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that we had reached a point
where only a shocking event...
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would show to them that
we were absolutely determined
425
00:23:32,542 --> 00:23:35,375
to bring the war
to a conclusion.
426
00:23:35,458 --> 00:23:37,834
John McCain:
We applauded
and we cheered,
427
00:23:37,917 --> 00:23:40,375
and we sang
"The Star-Spangled Banner."
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00:23:41,417 --> 00:23:44,250
And the North Vietnamese
were panicked.
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00:23:44,333 --> 00:23:46,333
They were panicked.
430
00:23:47,667 --> 00:23:49,458
Fer:
When that bombing was over,
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there was
a very strange silence,
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and then an announcement
on the radio that on the--
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00:23:54,208 --> 00:23:57,750
they were gonna sign
an agreement to end the war.
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♪ ♪
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John McCain:
And a few days later,
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all the prisoners
were called out,
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00:24:03,208 --> 00:24:06,125
and the commanding officer
of the camp read off
438
00:24:06,208 --> 00:24:08,250
the provisions
of the settlement.
439
00:24:08,333 --> 00:24:10,291
And one of the--
part of the settlement is
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00:24:10,375 --> 00:24:14,208
"Prisoners will be returned
by order of capture."
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00:24:16,625 --> 00:24:20,875
While we were waiting,
they said, "McCain, come in,
we need to talk to you."
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00:24:20,959 --> 00:24:24,959
And there was
about eight Vietnamese
in this room-- officers--
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00:24:25,041 --> 00:24:27,333
and they had a tape recorder,
and they said,
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00:24:27,417 --> 00:24:29,709
"McCain, you are going
to be leaving now,
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00:24:29,792 --> 00:24:31,458
"and we saved your life,
as you know.
446
00:24:31,542 --> 00:24:36,834
"Don't you want to have
a parting message of thanks
447
00:24:36,917 --> 00:24:40,750
for the doctors
who took such care--
good care of you?"
448
00:24:40,834 --> 00:24:42,959
And I looked at 'em,
and I said,
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00:24:43,041 --> 00:24:44,834
"You want me
to thank the doctors?"
450
00:24:44,917 --> 00:24:47,917
They say, "Yeah."
"Well, first of all,
I'd like to say,
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00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,750
"Where the fuck have you been
for the last five years?
452
00:24:50,834 --> 00:24:51,875
Could I say that?"
453
00:24:51,959 --> 00:24:56,417
(Vietnamese officer
calling out names indistinctly)
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00:24:57,917 --> 00:25:00,458
John:
Going home was
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00:25:00,542 --> 00:25:03,375
something that we'd looked
forward to for so many years.
456
00:25:03,458 --> 00:25:06,750
I hate to tell you,
but it was almost anticlimatic,
457
00:25:06,834 --> 00:25:08,542
been waiting so long for it.
458
00:25:08,625 --> 00:25:11,917
Vietnamese Officer:
John Sidney McCain.
459
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:13,917
John:
In some ways, it was
almost hard to believe
460
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,208
we were gonna do it.
461
00:25:17,291 --> 00:25:22,166
Nobody cheered until
the airplane actually
lifted off the ground
462
00:25:22,250 --> 00:25:25,208
and the landing gear
was retracted.
463
00:25:26,583 --> 00:25:28,500
Joe:
I remember, really clearly,
464
00:25:28,583 --> 00:25:31,166
him stepping off that plane
into Clark Airfield.
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And I'll tell you,
when he appeared
in that hatchway...
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00:25:35,208 --> 00:25:38,250
it was hard.
467
00:25:38,333 --> 00:25:40,959
Newsman:
Lieutenant Commander
John S. McCain III,
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00:25:41,041 --> 00:25:43,000
United States Navy.
469
00:25:43,083 --> 00:25:46,250
His wife Carol,
sons Douglas and Andrew,
and daughter Sidney
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00:25:46,333 --> 00:25:48,125
live in Orange Park, Florida.
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00:25:48,208 --> 00:25:51,083
Carol:
I just remember
he was really skinny.
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00:25:51,166 --> 00:25:53,917
He was just kind
of all bones in his face,
473
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:58,375
and he was limping
quite noticeably.
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00:25:58,458 --> 00:26:01,750
One of his arms he couldn't lift
any higher than about this.
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00:26:03,125 --> 00:26:05,625
But I just remember
the smile was the same,
476
00:26:05,709 --> 00:26:08,667
the humor was the same,
there was still a twinkle
in his eye.
477
00:26:09,667 --> 00:26:11,625
It was like
right out of the movies.
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00:26:13,625 --> 00:26:15,583
Sidney:
I don't think
I really understood
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00:26:15,667 --> 00:26:17,041
what was going on.
480
00:26:17,125 --> 00:26:19,792
I was really like,
"Who is this guy?
481
00:26:19,875 --> 00:26:21,208
What is he doing here?"
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00:26:21,291 --> 00:26:22,875
Did not understand
the whole concept
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00:26:22,959 --> 00:26:26,417
of his return from...
from Vietnam.
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♪ ♪
485
00:26:30,166 --> 00:26:32,000
Carol:
John was not angry.
486
00:26:32,083 --> 00:26:34,583
He was just happy to be home.
487
00:26:34,667 --> 00:26:38,583
He told me every single thing
that he could remember,
and I wanted him to.
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00:26:38,667 --> 00:26:40,417
I wanted him to just talk
and talk and talk,
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00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:43,458
to not keep
that stuff locked up.
490
00:26:45,500 --> 00:26:49,542
When we came home,
I wanted to know what happened
during all those years.
491
00:26:51,041 --> 00:26:53,792
Think of yourself
going five and a half years
492
00:26:53,875 --> 00:26:56,333
with only information
provided to you
493
00:26:56,417 --> 00:26:58,834
by your communist captors.
494
00:26:58,917 --> 00:27:02,208
I wanted to know how
the anti-war movement began.
495
00:27:06,083 --> 00:27:08,083
Senator Fulbright:
Will the committee
come to order?
496
00:27:08,166 --> 00:27:10,583
The committee,
continuing its hearings
497
00:27:10,667 --> 00:27:13,125
on proposals relating
to the ending
498
00:27:13,208 --> 00:27:15,041
of the war in Southeast Asia.
499
00:27:15,125 --> 00:27:17,583
John and I were
on different paths
500
00:27:17,667 --> 00:27:19,750
with respect
to the war in Vietnam.
501
00:27:19,834 --> 00:27:21,166
♪ ♪
502
00:27:21,250 --> 00:27:23,959
My war was
down in the Delta, mostly,
503
00:27:24,041 --> 00:27:27,125
and seeing the war
on a ground level
504
00:27:27,208 --> 00:27:31,125
led me to believe
we were on a quixotic errand.
505
00:27:31,208 --> 00:27:34,667
And it weighed on me
in a way that made me
506
00:27:34,750 --> 00:27:37,792
a very vocal and determined
507
00:27:37,875 --> 00:27:40,125
anti-war activist
after I came back.
508
00:27:40,208 --> 00:27:42,458
Each day to facilitate
the process
509
00:27:42,542 --> 00:27:44,291
by which the United States
510
00:27:44,375 --> 00:27:46,417
washes her hands of Vietnam,
511
00:27:46,500 --> 00:27:48,792
someone has
to give up his life
512
00:27:48,875 --> 00:27:52,333
so that the United States
doesn't have to admit something
513
00:27:52,417 --> 00:27:55,375
that the entire world
already knows,
514
00:27:55,458 --> 00:27:59,500
so that we can't say
that we've made a mistake.
515
00:27:59,583 --> 00:28:02,000
John:
It didn't change my mind,
516
00:28:02,083 --> 00:28:05,000
but what was very revealing
517
00:28:05,083 --> 00:28:08,208
was how mishandled
the conflict was
518
00:28:08,291 --> 00:28:11,834
and how there was never
a strategy for victory.
519
00:28:11,917 --> 00:28:14,792
Someone has to die so that
President Nixon won't be--
520
00:28:14,875 --> 00:28:16,667
and these are his words--
521
00:28:16,750 --> 00:28:20,333
"the first president
to lose a war."
522
00:28:20,417 --> 00:28:22,542
The most offensive to me
523
00:28:22,625 --> 00:28:27,500
was that we didn't tell
the American people the truth.
524
00:28:27,583 --> 00:28:30,667
John:
The American people
become disillusioned
525
00:28:30,750 --> 00:28:34,375
when they're being told
that victory is just
around the corner...
526
00:28:34,458 --> 00:28:36,000
Kerry:
And we will
not be silent!
527
00:28:36,083 --> 00:28:38,291
...which it was not.
528
00:28:40,583 --> 00:28:42,375
Newsman:
Though it hardly
seems possible,
529
00:28:42,458 --> 00:28:44,166
it's been more
than five years
530
00:28:44,250 --> 00:28:47,208
since the nearly
600 American POWs
came home.
531
00:28:47,291 --> 00:28:51,375
280 of them gathered
for an anniversary celebration
this weekend.
532
00:28:51,458 --> 00:28:53,250
We've been treated
very, very well,
533
00:28:53,333 --> 00:28:56,166
and we've been
a few times embarrassed
534
00:28:56,250 --> 00:28:58,208
by the attention
we've received,
535
00:28:58,291 --> 00:29:00,709
because we don't feel
that we did anything
536
00:29:00,792 --> 00:29:04,166
that any other American
wouldn't do under
the same circumstances.
537
00:29:04,250 --> 00:29:06,375
but as far as our adjustments
have been,
538
00:29:06,458 --> 00:29:08,667
all the studies indicate
we've done very well.
539
00:29:08,750 --> 00:29:10,333
♪ ♪
540
00:29:10,417 --> 00:29:13,083
John:
The period of adjustment
was not as hard
541
00:29:13,166 --> 00:29:15,542
as you might think.
542
00:29:15,625 --> 00:29:17,709
I was able to go back
to a squadron,
543
00:29:17,792 --> 00:29:19,458
be the commanding officer
of a squadron,
544
00:29:19,542 --> 00:29:21,458
which is what
I always wanted to do.
545
00:29:23,250 --> 00:29:25,375
Andy:
It was important for him
to be able to fly again,
546
00:29:25,458 --> 00:29:28,542
so he did very aggressive
physical therapy
547
00:29:28,625 --> 00:29:31,208
to get his body back in shape.
548
00:29:31,291 --> 00:29:33,500
Then he went to be
the liaison for the Senate,
549
00:29:33,583 --> 00:29:38,166
and I think he got
a real bug for politics there.
550
00:29:38,250 --> 00:29:42,125
Joe Biden:
I ended up in the United States
Senate in 1973,
551
00:29:42,208 --> 00:29:45,834
John came shortly thereafter
as the Navy liaison.
552
00:29:45,917 --> 00:29:47,417
When you travel abroad,
553
00:29:47,500 --> 00:29:50,166
you have a military escort
with you.
554
00:29:50,250 --> 00:29:52,000
And every time I traveled,
555
00:29:52,083 --> 00:29:54,458
I tried to make sure
I had John,
556
00:29:54,542 --> 00:29:56,583
and I think
John did the same thing,
557
00:29:56,667 --> 00:29:58,625
and we traveled
all over the world together.
558
00:29:58,709 --> 00:30:00,667
♪ ♪
559
00:30:00,750 --> 00:30:02,625
John:
I went everywhere.
560
00:30:02,709 --> 00:30:05,291
That's where
I really became familiar
561
00:30:05,375 --> 00:30:08,041
with the Senate
and how it works.
562
00:30:08,125 --> 00:30:11,208
I learned one heck of a lot.
563
00:30:12,917 --> 00:30:16,375
Andy:
As Dad progressed,
he was gone a lot.
564
00:30:16,458 --> 00:30:18,709
He was doing a lot
of international travel,
565
00:30:18,792 --> 00:30:21,458
and it was
putting a little stress
on the marriage.
566
00:30:21,542 --> 00:30:25,542
I talked to one shrink
since I've come home.
567
00:30:25,625 --> 00:30:27,625
He asked me
how my marriage was,
568
00:30:27,709 --> 00:30:29,417
I told him it was fine,
and then he told me
569
00:30:29,500 --> 00:30:31,083
about the fact
that he was getting a divorce
570
00:30:31,166 --> 00:30:33,417
for a half an hour.
571
00:30:33,500 --> 00:30:36,291
Cindy:
I was a teacher
of special education
572
00:30:36,375 --> 00:30:38,333
at the time in Arizona,
573
00:30:38,417 --> 00:30:42,458
and it was spring break,
and we were invited
to a reception
574
00:30:42,542 --> 00:30:46,125
that was being held for a group
of United States senators
575
00:30:46,208 --> 00:30:48,375
on their way
through Hawaii to China.
576
00:30:49,500 --> 00:30:51,166
He introduced
himself to me,
577
00:30:51,250 --> 00:30:53,291
and I just didn't know
what to expect,
578
00:30:53,375 --> 00:30:56,291
and what I saw was just
this incredible human being
579
00:30:56,375 --> 00:30:58,375
that's a lot of fun
to be around.
580
00:30:59,542 --> 00:31:02,709
This is about the time
our marriage was falling apart.
581
00:31:03,917 --> 00:31:07,000
He was looking for a way
to be young again,
582
00:31:07,083 --> 00:31:08,750
and that was
the end of that.
583
00:31:08,834 --> 00:31:10,458
I didn't know
anything about it.
584
00:31:10,542 --> 00:31:12,458
I had no idea
what was going on.
585
00:31:12,542 --> 00:31:15,500
I was pretty much blindsided,
and it broke my heart.
586
00:31:15,583 --> 00:31:18,000
♪ ♪
587
00:31:18,083 --> 00:31:21,542
Sidney:
I think it was the last thing
that she was expecting.
588
00:31:21,625 --> 00:31:24,000
We were all shocked
and heartbroken.
589
00:31:24,083 --> 00:31:27,458
It caused quite a...
a rift within the family.
590
00:31:29,291 --> 00:31:31,792
Doug:
It left a bad taste
in my mouth
591
00:31:31,875 --> 00:31:34,083
because I knew it wasn't
what my mother wanted,
592
00:31:34,166 --> 00:31:35,875
but by the same token,
593
00:31:35,959 --> 00:31:37,792
you know that sometimes things
594
00:31:37,875 --> 00:31:39,834
are beyond your control.
595
00:31:41,709 --> 00:31:46,625
I think the divorce rates
among the POWs were
extraordinarily high.
596
00:31:47,875 --> 00:31:51,959
So, in hindsight,
it's probably not unexpected.
597
00:31:53,125 --> 00:31:55,041
♪ ♪
598
00:31:55,125 --> 00:31:57,834
Cindy:
I really didn't think
that he would propose.
599
00:31:57,917 --> 00:31:59,709
You know, he was older.
600
00:31:59,792 --> 00:32:03,333
I knew he cared very deeply
for me, I did know that.
601
00:32:05,583 --> 00:32:08,625
Sidney:
Cindy, I think--
602
00:32:08,709 --> 00:32:12,750
she was very young too,
and you can't help who you
fall in love with.
603
00:32:12,834 --> 00:32:14,625
I truly believe that my dad
604
00:32:14,709 --> 00:32:16,917
is very much in love
with Cindy,
605
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:18,458
and I think she is
very much in love with him,
606
00:32:18,542 --> 00:32:20,583
and I think there's something
really beautiful about that.
607
00:32:20,667 --> 00:32:24,959
But at the time,
it was... really awful.
608
00:32:30,333 --> 00:32:33,500
Carol:
I got a telephone call
from the Navy.
609
00:32:33,583 --> 00:32:37,250
They wanted to know
did I know where John was.
610
00:32:37,333 --> 00:32:39,500
And I said yes,
I did know where he was.
611
00:32:40,834 --> 00:32:43,000
He was now remarried.
612
00:32:43,083 --> 00:32:45,000
I had the phone number
and I called him.
613
00:32:45,083 --> 00:32:48,208
And he knew by my voice
that something was wrong,
and he said, "What is it?"
614
00:32:48,291 --> 00:32:50,667
And I said,
"Your father has died."
615
00:32:50,750 --> 00:32:52,417
♪ ♪
616
00:32:57,333 --> 00:32:59,875
Cindy:
We hadn't even
been married a year.
617
00:33:01,208 --> 00:33:05,500
No one ever wants
this kind of insight
into a family,
618
00:33:05,583 --> 00:33:10,125
but what I observed was
a family of great strength,
619
00:33:10,208 --> 00:33:13,125
great honor,
great dignity.
620
00:33:13,208 --> 00:33:15,875
The importance
of legacy and tradition
621
00:33:15,959 --> 00:33:18,583
was never more apparent
to me than that day.
622
00:33:21,083 --> 00:33:25,000
John:
It's not a exaggeration
when we say "Navy family."
623
00:33:25,083 --> 00:33:28,834
There's a lot
to the Navy family.
624
00:33:28,917 --> 00:33:34,083
My grandfather was commander
of the carriers in the Pacific
during World War II.
625
00:33:34,166 --> 00:33:36,750
The day of the peace signing,
626
00:33:36,834 --> 00:33:39,583
my father and grandfather
were together.
627
00:33:40,834 --> 00:33:44,166
My grandfather flew
home the next day,
628
00:33:44,250 --> 00:33:47,125
had a heart attack and died.
629
00:33:48,542 --> 00:33:52,375
My father was
a very dedicated
naval officer.
630
00:33:54,583 --> 00:33:56,667
I never got as close
to my father
631
00:33:56,750 --> 00:34:01,458
as perhaps I would've
under normal circumstances,
632
00:34:01,542 --> 00:34:07,250
but I was so proud
of what he and my grandfather
were doing.
633
00:34:11,291 --> 00:34:14,709
Cindy:
John had retired from the Navy
just during that week,
634
00:34:14,792 --> 00:34:17,250
and so finished
the retirement process
635
00:34:17,333 --> 00:34:19,625
during the days
of the funeral,
636
00:34:19,709 --> 00:34:22,083
and we left the next day
to go home.
637
00:34:23,792 --> 00:34:25,917
That's a lot to absorb.
638
00:34:27,834 --> 00:34:30,208
John:
I was unable to maintain
flight status.
639
00:34:30,291 --> 00:34:33,709
That puts a ceiling,
and I had to make
a tough decision,
640
00:34:33,792 --> 00:34:38,083
and I decided that, since
I was not gonna be able
641
00:34:38,166 --> 00:34:40,917
to reach all the heights
that I wanted to,
642
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:45,083
that I'd get out of the Navy,
and that we'd go to Arizona.
643
00:34:45,166 --> 00:34:47,792
♪ ♪
644
00:34:47,875 --> 00:34:50,083
Cindy:
I felt he had
some political ambitions,
645
00:34:50,166 --> 00:34:53,291
although he hadn't really
outwardly said it to me.
646
00:34:53,375 --> 00:34:56,000
But I knew
that he was good
at what he does.
647
00:34:56,083 --> 00:34:58,667
He was engaged in Washington.
He was a smart thinker.
648
00:35:00,417 --> 00:35:02,667
Woods:
I think if he had
his choice,
649
00:35:02,750 --> 00:35:05,458
he would have gone on
and become an admiral,
650
00:35:05,542 --> 00:35:07,333
and there would have been
that symmetry there
651
00:35:07,417 --> 00:35:08,834
with his father
and grandfather.
652
00:35:12,125 --> 00:35:13,917
And whether
he likes it or not,
653
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,000
that would have been
something, okay?
654
00:35:16,083 --> 00:35:17,792
But that wasn't possible.
655
00:35:18,917 --> 00:35:23,834
However, he was going to serve
his country in some way.
656
00:35:25,333 --> 00:35:26,875
I'm announcing today
my decision
657
00:35:26,959 --> 00:35:29,041
to become a candidate
for the Republican nomination...
658
00:35:29,125 --> 00:35:32,250
Cindy:
He was running for what
had been John Rhodes' seat,
659
00:35:32,333 --> 00:35:34,583
and one of the first things
I remember
660
00:35:34,667 --> 00:35:36,959
was a gentleman
at a Rotary Club that said,
661
00:35:37,041 --> 00:35:39,291
"Well-- well,
you're not from Arizona.
662
00:35:39,375 --> 00:35:43,250
What do you know about Arizona?
You're not a native Arizonan."
663
00:35:43,333 --> 00:35:45,792
Woods:
He threw a line on them
in the first debate
664
00:35:45,875 --> 00:35:48,875
that ended
the carpetbagger controversy.
665
00:35:48,959 --> 00:35:52,250
He said, "Well, you know,
sorry, but the longest
666
00:35:52,333 --> 00:35:54,583
I've ever lived anywhere
in my life is in Hanoi."
667
00:35:54,667 --> 00:36:00,458
And... that was the end
of that discussion, frankly.
668
00:36:00,542 --> 00:36:05,125
The idea was to get him
in front of as many people
as you could.
669
00:36:05,208 --> 00:36:09,125
So he, every day,
was out knocking on doors,
670
00:36:09,208 --> 00:36:13,041
door to door
to door to door to door
all summer long.
671
00:36:13,125 --> 00:36:15,083
He would just engage with them.
He'd just talk with them.
672
00:36:15,166 --> 00:36:19,041
Now, if someone was rude,
John being John, you know,
673
00:36:19,125 --> 00:36:22,667
he'd walk down, turn around,
say, "Thank you very much,"
674
00:36:22,750 --> 00:36:25,875
and turn around and go,
"What an asshole.
Fuck that guy."
675
00:36:25,959 --> 00:36:27,792
I mean, pfft! That--
676
00:36:27,875 --> 00:36:32,500
That happened a hundred times,
you know, but that's John.
677
00:36:32,583 --> 00:36:36,166
If he would've had the energy
of a regular candidate,
678
00:36:36,250 --> 00:36:38,083
then he would've lost,
679
00:36:38,166 --> 00:36:40,959
but we won so that was--
that was awesome.
680
00:36:41,041 --> 00:36:42,750
♪ ♪
681
00:36:42,834 --> 00:36:46,792
But our goal from day one
was for John to be
in the Senate,
682
00:36:46,875 --> 00:36:49,333
not to be in the House.
683
00:36:49,417 --> 00:36:53,041
It became known
that Barry Goldwater
was gonna retire
684
00:36:53,125 --> 00:36:54,875
some two years,
three years later.
685
00:36:54,959 --> 00:36:59,041
And so, right then,
I started positioning myself
686
00:36:59,125 --> 00:37:01,875
for running
for Barry's seat
in the Senate,
687
00:37:01,959 --> 00:37:04,125
and I didn't make
a lot of bones about it.
688
00:37:04,208 --> 00:37:07,750
I was always looking
the next step down the road.
689
00:37:07,834 --> 00:37:09,208
♪ ♪
690
00:37:09,291 --> 00:37:10,875
Biden:
When he came
to the Senate,
691
00:37:10,959 --> 00:37:13,125
he was already
a well-known commodity.
692
00:37:13,208 --> 00:37:15,208
He was already respected.
693
00:37:15,291 --> 00:37:18,667
I don't think John missed a beat
coming over to the Senate.
694
00:37:21,250 --> 00:37:23,333
Cindy:
When John was first elected
695
00:37:23,417 --> 00:37:24,792
and we started
having children,
696
00:37:24,875 --> 00:37:27,375
it was a conscious
decision by both of us
697
00:37:27,458 --> 00:37:29,709
to raise our children
in Arizona.
698
00:37:29,792 --> 00:37:32,166
John:
Hi, this is John.
Can I speak to Deb?
699
00:37:33,208 --> 00:37:34,417
Good.
700
00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:36,458
Jimmy, let me see
your phone there.
701
00:37:36,542 --> 00:37:39,583
Where did you get
that phone, huh?
702
00:37:39,667 --> 00:37:42,917
Hey, how you doing?
703
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,834
Oh, the kids are
getting ready to go for
their swimming party today
704
00:37:45,917 --> 00:37:48,417
for the last day of school,
and one of those parties
is here.
705
00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:51,583
Cindy:
We knew there was going
to be a huge sacrifice,
706
00:37:51,667 --> 00:37:54,083
mainly for him,
because, I mean, he's--
707
00:37:54,166 --> 00:37:55,583
he's the one
that had to commute.
708
00:37:55,667 --> 00:37:58,125
Hi.
709
00:37:58,208 --> 00:38:02,083
Cindy:
The way I portrayed it
to the kids is kind of
a deployed manner:
710
00:38:02,166 --> 00:38:05,000
He's serving his country,
he's away,
711
00:38:05,083 --> 00:38:08,375
he has to be away,
but you know you'll see him
on the weekends.
712
00:38:08,458 --> 00:38:12,792
With that said,
he never missed a weekend.
713
00:38:15,625 --> 00:38:17,583
Yes, it's the first time
that I had, uh,
714
00:38:17,667 --> 00:38:20,500
that I had done that,
and, um, and I, um...
715
00:38:20,583 --> 00:38:22,291
Cindy: What?
716
00:38:22,375 --> 00:38:23,834
Meghan,
leave the cat alone.
717
00:38:23,917 --> 00:38:26,959
John: I promise you,
the cat will come out
if you leave her alone.
718
00:38:27,041 --> 00:38:29,875
I know that people think
it's sort of an unorthodox way
to grow up,
719
00:38:29,959 --> 00:38:33,792
having your parents divided,
but they made such an attempt
720
00:38:33,875 --> 00:38:37,041
to make sure
that we had family time
and traveled together
721
00:38:37,125 --> 00:38:39,208
that it just is,
when it's your normal,
722
00:38:39,291 --> 00:38:40,750
you don't think
of anything different.
723
00:38:40,834 --> 00:38:41,959
Good. Okay, good.
724
00:38:42,041 --> 00:38:44,041
Okay, see you later.
All right, hon.
725
00:38:44,125 --> 00:38:45,291
Cindy:
Bye, see you later.
726
00:38:45,375 --> 00:38:47,625
Jack:
When my dad was in DC,
it was mostly my mom.
727
00:38:47,709 --> 00:38:51,250
She has a very kind
demeanor, generally,
728
00:38:51,333 --> 00:38:55,250
but when the mom needs
to come out, she will.
729
00:38:56,667 --> 00:38:59,208
But depending on how much
we had misbehaved,
730
00:38:59,291 --> 00:39:04,041
it was always the threat of,
"All right, well I'm gonna
call your father."
731
00:39:04,125 --> 00:39:08,959
He has the ability
to out-argue or outthink
any member of our family,
732
00:39:09,041 --> 00:39:11,500
which is very frustrating
when you're young.
733
00:39:11,583 --> 00:39:12,750
♪ ♪
734
00:39:12,834 --> 00:39:15,542
Newsman:
This man is
a United States senator,
735
00:39:15,625 --> 00:39:17,667
and you are about
to hear him say something
736
00:39:17,750 --> 00:39:20,333
that very few senators
have ever said before.
737
00:39:20,417 --> 00:39:22,500
It was a very serious mistake
on my part.
738
00:39:22,583 --> 00:39:25,959
Safer:
John McCain is talking
about the role he played
739
00:39:26,041 --> 00:39:28,709
in Charles Keating's
attempt in 1987
740
00:39:28,792 --> 00:39:31,333
to secure senatorial protection
741
00:39:31,417 --> 00:39:33,125
against the federal government
742
00:39:33,208 --> 00:39:36,083
taking over his
Lincoln Savings and Loan.
743
00:39:37,417 --> 00:39:39,834
John:
Charles Keating was
a very big builder.
744
00:39:39,917 --> 00:39:42,625
He was probably at that time
the biggest in Arizona.
745
00:39:42,709 --> 00:39:44,709
He also was very patriotic,
746
00:39:44,792 --> 00:39:46,166
and he took a liking to me,
747
00:39:46,250 --> 00:39:48,166
and he helped me
with my campaigns.
748
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:51,625
Woods:
He was a big Arizona player.
749
00:39:51,709 --> 00:39:54,250
He would support candidates
and get behind candidates
750
00:39:54,333 --> 00:39:57,000
and raise a lot of money.
751
00:39:57,083 --> 00:39:58,750
And then he bought
some savings and loans,
752
00:39:58,834 --> 00:40:01,875
and that's where it all
kind of went south on him.
753
00:40:01,959 --> 00:40:04,291
Newsman:
Examiners from the Federal
Home Loan Bank
754
00:40:04,375 --> 00:40:07,667
found what they described
as a ticking time bomb.
755
00:40:07,750 --> 00:40:09,667
The examiners also
uncovered evidence
756
00:40:09,750 --> 00:40:12,792
of improper bookkeeping
and possible fraud.
757
00:40:12,875 --> 00:40:15,000
Then the federal examiners
were summoned
758
00:40:15,083 --> 00:40:18,542
for an extraordinary meeting
with five United States
senators.
759
00:40:18,625 --> 00:40:21,750
Each senator had gotten
large campaign donations
760
00:40:21,834 --> 00:40:24,834
from Keating, his family,
and their associates.
761
00:40:24,917 --> 00:40:27,166
Newsman 2:
In the most explosive
testimony yet,
762
00:40:27,250 --> 00:40:30,750
Edwin Gray, the former
chief regulator of the savings
and loan industry,
763
00:40:30,834 --> 00:40:33,041
told Banking Committee Chairman
Henry Gonzalez
764
00:40:33,125 --> 00:40:34,709
that four US senators
765
00:40:34,792 --> 00:40:37,000
asked him to ease
regulatory pressure
766
00:40:37,083 --> 00:40:39,125
on troubled Lincoln
Savings and Loan.
767
00:40:39,208 --> 00:40:43,250
John still tells me
when he walked in the door
of that meeting
768
00:40:43,333 --> 00:40:44,875
that had been
arranged for this,
769
00:40:44,959 --> 00:40:47,750
he knew that this was
gonna be a problem.
770
00:40:47,834 --> 00:40:51,417
I'm doing everything
that I can to try and set
the record straight,
771
00:40:51,500 --> 00:40:55,166
again, admitting
that I made mistakes
and serious ones,
772
00:40:55,250 --> 00:40:57,709
but I did not abuse
my office,
773
00:40:57,792 --> 00:41:00,083
and I think that's
the key to this issue here.
774
00:41:00,166 --> 00:41:03,458
You told me this was
the political crisis
of your life.
775
00:41:03,542 --> 00:41:05,667
Absolutely.
Tell me why it is.
776
00:41:05,750 --> 00:41:08,291
Because my reputation
is at stake here.
777
00:41:08,375 --> 00:41:12,208
I've never had
my ethics or my standards
of conduct questioned.
778
00:41:13,125 --> 00:41:14,458
Do you think
you'll survive it?
779
00:41:14,542 --> 00:41:15,792
I hope so.
780
00:41:15,875 --> 00:41:17,625
♪ ♪
781
00:41:17,709 --> 00:41:19,125
Newsman:
Hearings begin this week
782
00:41:19,208 --> 00:41:22,333
into what is already
being called a major
congressional scandal.
783
00:41:22,417 --> 00:41:25,125
Newswoman:
Never before have
five senators been accused
784
00:41:25,208 --> 00:41:28,959
of intervening
with federal regulators to help
a campaign contributor.
785
00:41:29,041 --> 00:41:32,375
This case raises troubling
questions about money,
786
00:41:32,458 --> 00:41:35,333
power, and political influence
in Washington.
787
00:41:35,417 --> 00:41:37,417
Man:
Proceed.
788
00:41:37,500 --> 00:41:39,542
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Once again, I'm glad to have
789
00:41:39,625 --> 00:41:41,875
the opportunity to fully
and publicly account
790
00:41:41,959 --> 00:41:44,667
for my relationship
with Charles Keating.
791
00:41:44,750 --> 00:41:48,834
The hearings took place
day in and day out.
792
00:41:48,917 --> 00:41:50,583
And...
793
00:41:50,667 --> 00:41:54,333
watching my husband
being dressed down
794
00:41:54,417 --> 00:41:59,667
by people, in my opinion,
that couldn't hold a candle
to him killed me.
795
00:41:59,750 --> 00:42:01,667
I mean, it broke my heart.
796
00:42:01,750 --> 00:42:05,333
Senator:
Mr. McCain and his family
took several flights
797
00:42:05,417 --> 00:42:09,583
on ACC corporate aircraft
and chartered aircraft.
798
00:42:09,667 --> 00:42:14,500
Two, prompt reimbursement
was made for only one
of the flights.
799
00:42:14,583 --> 00:42:16,917
Cindy:
He is his own worst critic
800
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,500
and holds himself
to a higher standard.
801
00:42:19,583 --> 00:42:22,250
He really does.
He tries his hardest
to be the best
802
00:42:22,333 --> 00:42:24,000
but do the most
honorable thing.
803
00:42:24,083 --> 00:42:27,375
And that was just a...
it was a mess.
804
00:42:27,458 --> 00:42:30,834
Senator:
To me, that statement does
not show an evidence of intent
805
00:42:30,917 --> 00:42:33,125
to reimburse
for family members.
806
00:42:33,208 --> 00:42:36,375
Once again, I have nothing
to gain personally by--
807
00:42:36,458 --> 00:42:38,166
Cindy:
It was not a good time
for any of us.
808
00:42:38,250 --> 00:42:41,709
I mean, I became ill.
I-- I was medicating myself.
809
00:42:41,792 --> 00:42:45,542
I mean, it was all--
it-- you know, it did
a number on both of us.
810
00:42:45,625 --> 00:42:47,083
Senator:
Now let's talk
a little bit about--
811
00:42:47,166 --> 00:42:49,166
Senator 2:
Would it be a proper time
we take a recess?
812
00:42:49,250 --> 00:42:51,375
Senator: Yes.
Senator 2:
Ten minute recess.
813
00:42:52,917 --> 00:42:55,208
Biden: John would
come over to my office
in the Keating Five,
814
00:42:55,291 --> 00:42:58,208
and we'd sit and talk,
and I'd say, "John, look,
815
00:42:58,291 --> 00:42:59,917
"you've just gotta--
you've just gotta--
816
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:02,333
"everybody's gonna
understand and ta--
817
00:43:02,417 --> 00:43:05,208
and just tough it out here,
tough it out."
818
00:43:05,291 --> 00:43:06,959
But it killed John.
819
00:43:09,333 --> 00:43:12,458
First and foremost,
it was a matter of honor.
820
00:43:12,542 --> 00:43:14,834
The second thing it challenged
821
00:43:14,917 --> 00:43:18,792
was his restlessness
and his impatience.
822
00:43:18,875 --> 00:43:20,333
It just dragged on.
823
00:43:20,417 --> 00:43:22,959
He needed to get to a place
where he could put it
824
00:43:23,041 --> 00:43:26,333
in his rearview mirror,
like he put every bad thing.
825
00:43:26,417 --> 00:43:29,583
Senator: The committee
concludes that Senator McCain
exercised poor judgment
826
00:43:29,667 --> 00:43:31,083
in intervening
with the regulators.
827
00:43:31,166 --> 00:43:33,959
Senator McCain has violated
no law of the United States
828
00:43:34,041 --> 00:43:35,959
or a specific rule
of the United States Senate.
829
00:43:36,041 --> 00:43:38,375
Therefore, the committee
concludes that no further action
830
00:43:38,458 --> 00:43:40,375
is warranted with respect
to Senator McCain
831
00:43:40,458 --> 00:43:43,417
on the matters investigated
during the preliminary inquiry.
832
00:43:43,500 --> 00:43:45,458
♪ ♪
833
00:43:45,542 --> 00:43:48,291
John:
I was found guilty
of bad judgment.
834
00:43:48,375 --> 00:43:51,875
That will always be
a black mark on my record,
835
00:43:51,959 --> 00:43:55,208
even if it was only using,
quote, "bad judgment."
836
00:43:55,291 --> 00:43:57,208
It was wrong.
837
00:43:59,166 --> 00:44:01,125
Until we abolish soft money,
838
00:44:01,208 --> 00:44:03,709
Americans will never
have a government
839
00:44:03,792 --> 00:44:06,250
that works
as hard for them
840
00:44:06,333 --> 00:44:09,208
as it does
for special interests.
841
00:44:09,291 --> 00:44:14,667
That is a sad
but undeniable fact
of contemporary politics.
842
00:44:14,750 --> 00:44:16,542
♪ ♪
843
00:44:16,625 --> 00:44:18,792
Cindy:
I think campaign
finance reform
844
00:44:18,875 --> 00:44:21,709
was a result
of what happened
at the Keating Five.
845
00:44:21,792 --> 00:44:24,875
He saw a system
that was really corrupt
846
00:44:24,959 --> 00:44:28,166
and really needed
to be reformed.
847
00:44:28,250 --> 00:44:30,834
The process must begin.
848
00:44:30,917 --> 00:44:33,750
Campaign finance
reform has contributed
849
00:44:33,834 --> 00:44:36,834
to the level of cynicism
that is prevalent
850
00:44:36,917 --> 00:44:39,166
in the American citizens today.
851
00:44:39,250 --> 00:44:41,250
Lieberman:
He stepped out,
he stepped away
852
00:44:41,333 --> 00:44:43,375
from most members
of his party.
853
00:44:43,458 --> 00:44:45,834
He formed
a bipartisan coalition
854
00:44:45,917 --> 00:44:49,250
with Russ Feingold and others,
and he fought like hell for it.
855
00:44:49,333 --> 00:44:51,166
I think we're doing
the right thing
856
00:44:51,250 --> 00:44:53,500
by trying to do this
on a bipartisan basis,
857
00:44:53,583 --> 00:44:55,000
because I think
it's the only way
858
00:44:55,083 --> 00:44:57,083
that campaign finance
reform can occur.
859
00:44:57,166 --> 00:45:00,000
Lieberman:
The basic John McCain
public image
860
00:45:00,083 --> 00:45:02,667
is the tough guy,
the maverick, the fighter,
861
00:45:02,750 --> 00:45:04,625
or if necessary in your face,
862
00:45:04,709 --> 00:45:07,375
maybe occasionally
showing temper.
863
00:45:07,458 --> 00:45:10,667
But visions of him
as the stubborn,
864
00:45:10,750 --> 00:45:12,917
immovable McCain
865
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:16,041
don't allow for the reality
866
00:45:16,125 --> 00:45:18,959
that he's had a very
productive career
867
00:45:19,041 --> 00:45:24,291
as a US senator
because he's not been
stubborn and immovable.
868
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:29,041
Vicki Kennedy:
Teddy loved working
with John McCain.
869
00:45:29,125 --> 00:45:30,875
He said they could
sort of go at it
870
00:45:30,959 --> 00:45:32,667
and then come back
and still be friends,
871
00:45:32,750 --> 00:45:36,375
and I think that was
the essence of being able
to really do a deal.
872
00:45:36,458 --> 00:45:39,417
I think that's why
they worked so well together.
873
00:45:39,500 --> 00:45:43,667
They were all moving
towards something that
was good for the country,
874
00:45:43,750 --> 00:45:46,041
and they might
have a different way
of getting there,
875
00:45:46,125 --> 00:45:49,041
but if they talked it out,
if they worked it out,
876
00:45:49,125 --> 00:45:52,417
they could find
that common ground
to move things forward.
877
00:45:53,834 --> 00:45:57,000
Biden:
Around the mid-'90s,
John and I used to sit
878
00:45:57,083 --> 00:45:59,375
on the floor together
when there's a debate.
879
00:45:59,458 --> 00:46:01,417
I'd go over and sit
next to John at his desk,
880
00:46:01,500 --> 00:46:04,000
and he'd come over
and sit next to me.
881
00:46:04,083 --> 00:46:07,709
And some senator said,
"Why are you sitting
with McCain?"
882
00:46:08,875 --> 00:46:10,500
I said, "He's my friend."
883
00:46:10,583 --> 00:46:12,583
"Well, it doesn't look good."
884
00:46:12,667 --> 00:46:14,250
I mean, my God.
885
00:46:14,333 --> 00:46:17,750
He was always open
to doing something that people
didn't expect him to do,
886
00:46:17,834 --> 00:46:19,625
like support
campaign finance reform.
887
00:46:20,667 --> 00:46:23,250
And McCain, I think,
both for noble motives
888
00:46:23,333 --> 00:46:25,542
and out
of practical experience,
889
00:46:25,625 --> 00:46:28,083
was always willing to break
the mold he was in
890
00:46:28,166 --> 00:46:30,500
if it was clearly
the right thing to do...
891
00:46:31,500 --> 00:46:33,667
and that's
an invaluable commodity.
892
00:46:36,417 --> 00:46:38,834
Brooks:
Campaign finance reform
made him very unpopular
893
00:46:38,917 --> 00:46:40,375
in the conservative movement,
894
00:46:40,458 --> 00:46:42,291
but I really don't think
he cared.
895
00:46:42,375 --> 00:46:44,750
He was driven by a sense
896
00:46:44,834 --> 00:46:46,625
that something
dishonorable was going on.
897
00:46:46,709 --> 00:46:48,375
♪ ♪
898
00:46:48,458 --> 00:46:53,083
He was really
a missile that aimed itself
at anything dishonorable,
899
00:46:53,166 --> 00:46:55,500
and wherever he saw a stain,
900
00:46:55,583 --> 00:46:58,959
he was driven to go after it.
901
00:46:59,041 --> 00:47:04,750
Richard Nixon: Within 60 days,
all Americans held prisoners
of war will be released.
902
00:47:04,834 --> 00:47:07,417
There will be the fullest
possible accounting
903
00:47:07,500 --> 00:47:09,125
for all of those who
are missing in action.
904
00:47:09,208 --> 00:47:11,750
I would like to say a word
to the families
905
00:47:11,834 --> 00:47:14,083
of our prisoners of war
and the missing in action.
906
00:47:14,166 --> 00:47:17,667
Nothing means more to me
at this moment
907
00:47:17,750 --> 00:47:20,041
than the fact
that your long vigil
908
00:47:20,125 --> 00:47:23,125
is coming to an end.
909
00:47:23,208 --> 00:47:26,375
We're here
because almost 19 years
910
00:47:26,458 --> 00:47:29,333
after the formal termination
of the war in Vietnam,
911
00:47:29,417 --> 00:47:32,750
the POW-MIA issue
still haunts America.
912
00:47:32,834 --> 00:47:35,333
The task of this committee,
therefore,
913
00:47:35,417 --> 00:47:37,417
over the next year is clear.
914
00:47:37,500 --> 00:47:42,417
It is to prove
to all concerned that we will
leave no stone unturned,
915
00:47:42,500 --> 00:47:45,583
no question unasked,
no effort unexplored
916
00:47:45,667 --> 00:47:48,375
in order to try
to resolve this issue.
917
00:47:48,458 --> 00:47:49,667
Some might ask
what will make--
918
00:47:49,750 --> 00:47:52,166
John:
John Kerry and I were
in strong disagreement
919
00:47:52,250 --> 00:47:55,000
concerning his activities
against the war,
920
00:47:55,083 --> 00:47:58,834
but I also respect the fact
that John Kerry served.
921
00:47:58,917 --> 00:48:00,417
♪ ♪
922
00:48:00,500 --> 00:48:03,458
Kerry:
John, in his spirit
of trying to reach out
923
00:48:03,542 --> 00:48:05,542
and put history
in its proper place,
924
00:48:05,625 --> 00:48:07,625
became friendly
with a lot of people
925
00:48:07,709 --> 00:48:09,333
who had opposed the war.
926
00:48:09,417 --> 00:48:14,208
And we began a conversation,
which ultimately led
the two of us
927
00:48:14,291 --> 00:48:16,959
to the same conclusion,
which was,
928
00:48:17,041 --> 00:48:20,500
the war still raged
in too many hearts
in our country,
929
00:48:20,583 --> 00:48:23,291
we were not at peace
with ourselves,
930
00:48:23,375 --> 00:48:26,583
and both of us saw
a strategic value
931
00:48:26,667 --> 00:48:28,583
in trying to move
to a different place
932
00:48:28,667 --> 00:48:31,917
with respect
to the relationship
with Vietnam.
933
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:35,250
We agreed to work
to get a full accounting
934
00:48:35,333 --> 00:48:36,625
of those who were
missing in action
935
00:48:36,709 --> 00:48:40,125
and normalize relations
between our two countries.
936
00:48:40,208 --> 00:48:44,083
Kerry:
There are
too many families who,
937
00:48:44,166 --> 00:48:47,417
for whatever reasons,
are not getting the answers
938
00:48:47,500 --> 00:48:50,041
that they deserve to have,
not being treated the way
939
00:48:50,125 --> 00:48:53,083
that they deserve to be treated,
and that has to change.
940
00:48:53,166 --> 00:48:57,417
Kerry:
John and I understood that
whatever strategic interests
941
00:48:57,500 --> 00:49:00,333
we might have had in moving
to a different relationship
with Vietnam
942
00:49:00,417 --> 00:49:05,542
would never be possible
unless those questions
were put to rest.
943
00:49:05,625 --> 00:49:09,625
Newsman:
Tonight, the US government has
new information from Vietnam
944
00:49:09,709 --> 00:49:14,208
that could help determine
what became of many
of these Americans.
945
00:49:14,291 --> 00:49:15,834
Mr. Minister.
946
00:49:15,917 --> 00:49:18,667
Newsman:
The promise to come clean was
made over the weekend in Hanoi
947
00:49:18,750 --> 00:49:21,542
to retired General John Vessey
and Senator John McCain.
948
00:49:21,625 --> 00:49:24,000
Vessey and McCain returned
from Hanoi last night
949
00:49:24,083 --> 00:49:26,625
carrying an inventory
of documents and photos
950
00:49:26,709 --> 00:49:28,959
hidden away
in the Vietnamese archives.
951
00:49:29,041 --> 00:49:32,291
The Vietnamese provided us
with a lot of photographs.
952
00:49:32,375 --> 00:49:35,208
They were kind enough
to give me several that, uh,
953
00:49:35,291 --> 00:49:39,959
that I had not seen before,
which I'd like to show you.
954
00:49:40,041 --> 00:49:43,625
I'm much better-looking
in those days than I am today.
955
00:49:43,709 --> 00:49:48,375
And I want to stress
what General Vessey
said just again,
956
00:49:48,458 --> 00:49:50,583
this is a beginning,
a beginning.
957
00:49:50,667 --> 00:49:54,291
There was this theory
that the Vietnamese were holding
958
00:49:54,375 --> 00:49:58,458
thousands of Americans
still prisoner,
959
00:49:58,542 --> 00:50:01,333
which McCain
intellectually understood,
960
00:50:01,417 --> 00:50:06,750
informed by experience,
was highly implausible.
961
00:50:06,834 --> 00:50:10,291
May I say, Mr. Chairman,
that Mrs. Alfond's remarks
962
00:50:10,375 --> 00:50:13,917
in her written statement
are far stronger than what
she just alleged.
963
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:18,291
Quote: "The recent
four thousand, eight hundred
photograph fiasco
964
00:50:18,375 --> 00:50:21,417
is yet another example
of committee duplicity."
965
00:50:21,500 --> 00:50:24,166
I'd like you to tell that
to some of the families
966
00:50:24,250 --> 00:50:27,291
who have finally had
this nightmare ended,
Mrs. Alfond.
967
00:50:27,375 --> 00:50:30,166
I've been speaking to them, sir.
I've been speaking to them.
968
00:50:30,250 --> 00:50:32,667
John:
No, I've been talking to them,
and they are grateful
969
00:50:32,750 --> 00:50:35,041
and they are happy,
and this is a-- this is a--
970
00:50:35,125 --> 00:50:38,667
in the view of most experts,
a significant breakthrough.
971
00:50:38,750 --> 00:50:42,208
Kerry:
What we did
was put together
972
00:50:42,291 --> 00:50:45,041
the single most exhaustive,
973
00:50:45,125 --> 00:50:50,667
most transparent accounting
for missing in war
974
00:50:50,750 --> 00:50:53,208
ever performed
by any country in the world.
975
00:50:53,291 --> 00:50:57,291
Daddy, Daddy, Daddy,
Daddy, Daddy!
976
00:50:57,375 --> 00:51:01,041
Newsman: Is there
any evidence that there
are any more alive missing?
977
00:51:01,125 --> 00:51:06,000
There's still no evidence
that would prove that there's
Americans alive.
978
00:51:06,083 --> 00:51:09,375
We're getting down
to not a whole lot of cases
979
00:51:09,458 --> 00:51:13,542
that are still unresolved,
and we're continuing
980
00:51:13,625 --> 00:51:15,709
to get cooperation
from the Vietnamese.
981
00:51:15,792 --> 00:51:17,709
Senator Kerry and I
are gonna meet
982
00:51:17,792 --> 00:51:19,041
with the president next week,
983
00:51:19,125 --> 00:51:21,250
and we'll give him a report,
984
00:51:21,333 --> 00:51:24,500
and he'll have to make up
his mind from there.
985
00:51:24,583 --> 00:51:27,458
Newsman:
Senator. Senator,
come over and talk to us.
986
00:51:27,542 --> 00:51:29,166
Salter:
In the last meeting
987
00:51:29,250 --> 00:51:31,333
about the normalization
of relations with Vietnam,
988
00:51:31,417 --> 00:51:34,166
they still hadn't
convinced Clinton to do it.
989
00:51:34,250 --> 00:51:39,041
Kerry made
the informed, logical,
compelling case for it,
990
00:51:39,125 --> 00:51:41,709
and then Clinton turned
to McCain--
991
00:51:41,792 --> 00:51:43,250
and I'll always
remember it--
992
00:51:43,333 --> 00:51:45,000
he just said, "Mr. President,
993
00:51:45,083 --> 00:51:48,500
"I am tired
of looking back at Vietnam,
994
00:51:48,583 --> 00:51:51,583
"and I am tired
of my country looking back.
995
00:51:51,667 --> 00:51:53,583
"It's time to move forward,
996
00:51:53,667 --> 00:51:55,750
"and if you normalize relations,
997
00:51:55,834 --> 00:51:58,792
I will defend you
every step of the way."
998
00:52:00,417 --> 00:52:02,083
Today, I am announcing
999
00:52:02,166 --> 00:52:06,250
the normalization of diplomatic
relationships with Vietnam.
1000
00:52:09,542 --> 00:52:12,291
Bill Clinton:
I realized, because
I hadn't served in the military
1001
00:52:12,375 --> 00:52:14,959
and because
I had openly opposed
the Vietnam War,
1002
00:52:15,041 --> 00:52:18,959
I had to have the support
of American veterans.
1003
00:52:19,041 --> 00:52:22,417
If McCain hadn't been there
and been willing to step up,
1004
00:52:22,500 --> 00:52:25,500
I don't think any of it
would've happened.
1005
00:52:25,583 --> 00:52:28,041
Let this moment,
in the words of the Scripture,
1006
00:52:28,125 --> 00:52:32,000
be a time to heal
and a time to build.
1007
00:52:32,083 --> 00:52:34,959
Thank you all,
and God bless America.
1008
00:52:40,542 --> 00:52:42,875
♪ ♪
1009
00:52:54,083 --> 00:52:56,000
Sidney:
My dad called me
and told me,
1010
00:52:56,083 --> 00:52:57,333
"I'm gonna run for president,
1011
00:52:57,417 --> 00:52:58,750
and I wanted to give you
the heads-up,"
1012
00:52:58,834 --> 00:53:00,375
and I was like, "Great,"
1013
00:53:00,458 --> 00:53:03,041
and inside, I'm like, "Oh no."
1014
00:53:03,125 --> 00:53:04,959
It's just...
1015
00:53:05,041 --> 00:53:08,792
I was very happy for him,
and I think you could kind
of see it coming
1016
00:53:08,875 --> 00:53:10,917
that that was gonna
be his calling.
1017
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:14,166
America doesn't owe me anything.
1018
00:53:14,250 --> 00:53:17,333
I am the son and grandsons
of Navy admirals
1019
00:53:17,417 --> 00:53:20,000
and I was born
into America's service.
1020
00:53:20,083 --> 00:53:22,834
It wasn't until
I was deprived
of her company
1021
00:53:22,917 --> 00:53:25,458
that I fell in love
with America,
1022
00:53:25,542 --> 00:53:28,500
and it has been my honor
to serve her
1023
00:53:28,583 --> 00:53:31,583
and her great cause,
freedom.
1024
00:53:31,667 --> 00:53:35,542
It is because I owe America
more than she has ever owed me
1025
00:53:35,625 --> 00:53:40,375
that I am a candidate for
president of the United States.
1026
00:53:43,667 --> 00:53:45,500
♪ ♪
1027
00:53:45,583 --> 00:53:47,875
Rick Davis:
In the run-up
to the 2000 campaign,
1028
00:53:47,959 --> 00:53:49,667
there were lots of candidates.
1029
00:53:49,750 --> 00:53:51,458
And, of course, the one person
1030
00:53:51,542 --> 00:53:52,917
that sort of stood overtop
1031
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:54,542
of that entire field,
1032
00:53:54,625 --> 00:53:56,250
you know, was George W. Bush.
1033
00:53:57,625 --> 00:54:00,375
John:
We started out
a decided underdog.
1034
00:54:00,458 --> 00:54:03,875
We thought that
the best way to campaign
1035
00:54:03,959 --> 00:54:06,709
was to have total access
to the media.
1036
00:54:06,792 --> 00:54:10,041
That's what
the Straight Talk Express
was all about.
1037
00:54:10,125 --> 00:54:12,000
♪ ♪
1038
00:54:15,083 --> 00:54:17,458
Davis:
He wanted to do politics
a different way.
1039
00:54:17,542 --> 00:54:21,625
We had modeled the campaign
on being completely transparent,
1040
00:54:21,709 --> 00:54:25,125
and every day,
18 hours a day,
1041
00:54:25,208 --> 00:54:27,333
John McCain
would be surrounded
by the press corps
1042
00:54:27,417 --> 00:54:29,709
that was covering him,
in the back of that bus,
1043
00:54:29,792 --> 00:54:32,750
holding forth on every issue
that was on the table.
1044
00:54:32,834 --> 00:54:35,750
John:
I'm against gun
registration, and so--
1045
00:54:35,834 --> 00:54:39,083
Newswoman: Why?
Because I don't think
it's necessary in America,
1046
00:54:39,166 --> 00:54:41,667
but I-- obviously we would--
as I've said before,
1047
00:54:41,750 --> 00:54:43,667
we would be glad
to examine proposals but--
1048
00:54:43,750 --> 00:54:48,041
So the bus was
this freewheeling exercise
in public discourse.
1049
00:54:48,125 --> 00:54:50,250
Let's do
a lightning round.
Okay.
1050
00:54:50,333 --> 00:54:53,000
Your favorite book.
1051
00:54:53,083 --> 00:54:55,208
"For Whom the Bell Tolls."
1052
00:54:55,291 --> 00:54:57,417
Favorite movie?
"Viva Zapata!"
1053
00:54:57,500 --> 00:55:00,625
Charlton Heston?
Marlon Brando.
1054
00:55:00,709 --> 00:55:02,375
Close enough.
1055
00:55:02,458 --> 00:55:04,083
Senator, how do
you reconcile the fact
1056
00:55:04,166 --> 00:55:07,208
that you were one
of the most vocal critics
of pork barrel politics,
1057
00:55:07,291 --> 00:55:10,792
and yet while you were chairman
of the Commerce Committee,
1058
00:55:10,875 --> 00:55:14,333
that committee set a record
for unauthorized appropriations?
1059
00:55:16,750 --> 00:55:19,458
I'm just kidding!
1060
00:55:19,542 --> 00:55:22,583
I just-- no,
I don't even know
what that means.
1061
00:55:24,250 --> 00:55:27,083
The 2000 presidential campaign
was the most fun
1062
00:55:27,166 --> 00:55:29,125
I've ever had
as a political journalist.
1063
00:55:29,208 --> 00:55:30,625
Everything was transparent,
1064
00:55:30,709 --> 00:55:32,166
so we got to see
absolutely everything.
1065
00:55:32,250 --> 00:55:35,083
All right, now--
now, America, what's--
1066
00:55:35,166 --> 00:55:37,875
what's secret plan
number Z27?
1067
00:55:37,959 --> 00:55:41,000
Brooks:
In those rides, the way
to get McCain talking
1068
00:55:41,083 --> 00:55:45,041
was to find somebody
he didn't like and just
remind him of it.
1069
00:55:45,125 --> 00:55:47,834
And so you'd get in
at like 6:00
in the morning and say,
1070
00:55:47,917 --> 00:55:49,834
"Senator, did you see
what Rick Santorum said?"
1071
00:55:49,917 --> 00:55:51,875
And he'd go,
"Ah, fucking asshole."
1072
00:55:51,959 --> 00:55:54,000
And then he'd go off,
and his tooth--
1073
00:55:54,083 --> 00:55:57,333
his mouth would just go,
and he'd talk and talk and talk,
1074
00:55:57,417 --> 00:56:01,166
and who he didn't like,
who he did like,
and it was great.
1075
00:56:01,250 --> 00:56:02,792
♪ ♪
1076
00:56:02,875 --> 00:56:04,417
Reporter:
Yes, he says the odds are long,
1077
00:56:04,500 --> 00:56:06,500
but to someone who survived
years of torture
1078
00:56:06,583 --> 00:56:10,250
and solitary confinement,
nothing seems impossible.
1079
00:56:10,333 --> 00:56:13,917
Some people have asked
why I'm running for President
of the United States.
1080
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:15,917
My wife says
it's because I received
1081
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:18,166
several sharp blows to the head
while I was in prison.
1082
00:56:18,250 --> 00:56:21,375
Reporter 2:
Is there a whispering campaign
against John McCain?
1083
00:56:21,458 --> 00:56:25,125
"Absolutely not,"
say the senators accused
of spreading rumors
1084
00:56:25,208 --> 00:56:28,709
that the Arizona senator
returned from captivity
in Vietnam
1085
00:56:28,792 --> 00:56:31,458
too unstable to be trusted
with the presidency.
1086
00:56:31,542 --> 00:56:34,041
But McCain's friend,
Democrat John Kerry,
1087
00:56:34,125 --> 00:56:35,875
says he's heard
the whispers.
1088
00:56:35,959 --> 00:56:37,792
Tacky, tawdry, petty.
1089
00:56:37,875 --> 00:56:41,875
It was very important for us
to stand up for the truth,
1090
00:56:41,959 --> 00:56:44,375
for the reality of what
was being done here.
1091
00:56:44,458 --> 00:56:46,375
I picked up the phone
and called him.
1092
00:56:46,458 --> 00:56:48,208
I said, "John,
where do you want me?
1093
00:56:48,291 --> 00:56:51,166
"Where do you want me?
I will testify to your character
1094
00:56:51,250 --> 00:56:54,542
before anyone in the country.
You just tell me, pal."
1095
00:56:54,625 --> 00:56:56,166
And he started
laughing, he said,
1096
00:56:56,250 --> 00:56:58,667
"Well, you'd hurt me
more than you'd help,
Joe, by testifying."
1097
00:57:00,125 --> 00:57:02,917
John:
It was a failing of mine
that I was short-tempered.
1098
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:05,917
Part of it is,
I am in some ways
a perfectionist,
1099
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,250
and I want people
around me to be that way,
1100
00:57:08,333 --> 00:57:11,083
and so when they're not,
I get angry about it.
1101
00:57:11,166 --> 00:57:13,417
Why would you say
something that stupid?
1102
00:57:13,500 --> 00:57:15,250
Why would you
ask something that dumb?
1103
00:57:15,333 --> 00:57:17,834
Meghan:
I remember one time
going to his office
1104
00:57:17,917 --> 00:57:20,417
and walking in,
and he was screaming
at someone,
1105
00:57:20,500 --> 00:57:23,208
And I was like,
"Oh my God,
Dad talks like that?"
1106
00:57:23,291 --> 00:57:25,083
♪ ♪
1107
00:57:25,166 --> 00:57:26,917
Graham:
He can be
an asshole one minute
1108
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:28,250
and your dearest
friend the next,
1109
00:57:28,333 --> 00:57:31,333
but the thing about him is
that you know he loves you.
1110
00:57:31,417 --> 00:57:33,417
Reporter:
McCain thinks the release
of his medical records
1111
00:57:33,500 --> 00:57:37,542
has put to rest speculation
that his years in prison camp
made him unstable.
1112
00:57:37,625 --> 00:57:41,208
In fact, some voters
like hearing about
his explosive temper.
1113
00:57:41,291 --> 00:57:44,000
I'd rather have a man
as the commander-in-chief
1114
00:57:44,083 --> 00:57:46,750
with a little bit of temper
than a wuss in office.
1115
00:57:47,750 --> 00:57:50,083
Bush! Bush!
1116
00:57:50,166 --> 00:57:52,792
I was kind
of the presumptive heir
1117
00:57:52,875 --> 00:57:54,792
to the--
to the nomination.
1118
00:57:54,875 --> 00:57:56,542
George Bush! George Bush!
1119
00:57:56,625 --> 00:57:58,917
George W. Bush:
I never ran scared
I was gonna lose,
1120
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:03,125
but I knew John
would be a tough competitor.
1121
00:58:03,208 --> 00:58:05,750
Nobody was supposed beat
George W. Bush,
1122
00:58:05,834 --> 00:58:09,000
but if you could actually
beat him in a primary,
1123
00:58:09,083 --> 00:58:11,375
it could create
enormous momentum.
1124
00:58:11,458 --> 00:58:14,375
So the whole idea was,
just win in New Hampshire
1125
00:58:14,458 --> 00:58:17,333
and start the campaign
basically from there.
1126
00:58:19,542 --> 00:58:21,083
♪ ♪
1127
00:58:21,166 --> 00:58:23,458
Salter:
We had these
town halls everywhere
1128
00:58:23,542 --> 00:58:25,917
where he took any questions,
and they let him go
1129
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:27,917
for as long as people wanted
to ask him questions.
1130
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:32,250
I will do as we have
been doing all over
the state of New Hampshire,
1131
00:58:32,333 --> 00:58:35,083
and that is to respond
to your questions, comments,
1132
00:58:35,166 --> 00:58:37,834
and occasional insults
that you might have.
1133
00:58:37,917 --> 00:58:40,250
New Hampshire's
all about retail politics.
1134
00:58:40,333 --> 00:58:43,458
They want to see you,
not just once but two
or three times.
1135
00:58:43,542 --> 00:58:45,333
They want to touch you,
they want to ask you questions,
1136
00:58:45,417 --> 00:58:49,083
and John's really good at that.
And he likes it, he loves it.
1137
00:58:49,166 --> 00:58:51,875
I'd like to introduce
our four children,
1138
00:58:51,959 --> 00:58:56,333
Meghan, Jack,
Jimmy, and Bridgett McCain,
who are here--
1139
00:58:56,417 --> 00:58:58,500
Meghan:
I was a freshman
in high school,
1140
00:58:58,583 --> 00:59:04,166
and I just remember
that all of a sudden
he was super famous.
1141
00:59:04,250 --> 00:59:05,875
Salter:
Well, we were getting
a lot of coverage,
1142
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:07,709
and that was drawing crowds
to the town halls,
1143
00:59:07,792 --> 00:59:10,834
and they were getting
bigger and bigger and bigger
spilling out into the streets,
1144
00:59:10,917 --> 00:59:13,041
and you could just sense
something was happening.
1145
00:59:17,458 --> 00:59:20,166
Salter:
The last event we did was
in Bedford, New Hampshire,
1146
00:59:20,250 --> 00:59:22,542
and I went upstairs
to give him the exit polls,
1147
00:59:22,625 --> 00:59:26,458
and he was in the bedroom
rehearsing his speech.
1148
00:59:27,792 --> 00:59:30,250
I said, "I got the exit polls."
1149
00:59:30,333 --> 00:59:32,208
And he said,
"What are they?"
1150
00:59:32,291 --> 00:59:33,834
And I said,
"You're gonna win."
1151
00:59:33,917 --> 00:59:36,625
"Oh yeah, how much?"
he goes.
1152
00:59:36,709 --> 00:59:38,250
"You're gonna clobber."
1153
00:59:39,500 --> 00:59:41,583
"Well, that has implications."
1154
00:59:41,667 --> 00:59:45,291
I said, "Yeah,
like you could be President.
1155
00:59:45,375 --> 00:59:48,125
It has that implication."
1156
00:59:51,500 --> 00:59:53,500
Look at this.
1157
00:59:54,792 --> 00:59:57,917
I remember just
that hotel going crazy--
1158
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:02,709
just people everywhere crying
and screaming on this elation,
1159
01:00:02,792 --> 01:00:05,417
'cause he-- you know,
he whooped George Bush's ass.
1160
01:00:05,500 --> 01:00:09,417
My friends, in the weeks
and months ahead,
1161
01:00:09,500 --> 01:00:11,667
I may say things
you want to hear,
1162
01:00:11,750 --> 01:00:14,417
and I may say things
you don't want to hear...
1163
01:00:14,500 --> 01:00:16,917
Man: Yeah!
...but you will always--
1164
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:20,417
you will always hear
the truth from me,
1165
01:00:20,500 --> 01:00:23,291
no matter what.
1166
01:00:26,083 --> 01:00:27,875
George W. Bush:
Well, first of all,
I was surprised.
1167
01:00:27,959 --> 01:00:29,375
I thought
I was gonna whip him.
1168
01:00:29,458 --> 01:00:31,041
Of course, he thought
he was gonna whip me.
1169
01:00:31,125 --> 01:00:33,625
It was a turning point for me,
1170
01:00:33,709 --> 01:00:35,166
because he outworked me,
1171
01:00:35,250 --> 01:00:38,625
and he had a better message
for New Hampshire.
1172
01:00:38,709 --> 01:00:42,125
And so I told my team,
"Look, let's view this
as a blessing,
1173
01:00:42,208 --> 01:00:44,834
not a defeat."
And for that I'm thankful,
1174
01:00:44,917 --> 01:00:48,792
because I needed to show people
I could get off the mat.
1175
01:00:48,875 --> 01:00:50,959
John: Michael,
wait a minute-- Michael,
I would be glad to--
1176
01:00:51,041 --> 01:00:54,083
I would be glad
to examine that--
that proposal but I'd also--
1177
01:00:54,166 --> 01:00:57,834
Davis: Everybody knew
in the Bush campaign
and the McCain campaign
1178
01:00:57,917 --> 01:01:01,291
that whoever came out
of South Carolina was likely
to be the nominee of the party.
1179
01:01:01,375 --> 01:01:03,125
I'm glad to be
back down here.
1180
01:01:03,208 --> 01:01:07,500
I want you
to know, loud and clear,
we're going into battle.
1181
01:01:07,583 --> 01:01:11,667
New Hampshire's campaign
was basically void of a lot
of negative campaigning.
1182
01:01:11,750 --> 01:01:15,542
By the time we got
to South Carolina,
it was bare-knuckle politics.
1183
01:01:15,625 --> 01:01:18,709
Announcer:
This is George Bush's ad
promising America
1184
01:01:18,792 --> 01:01:20,500
he'd run
a positive campaign.
1185
01:01:20,583 --> 01:01:23,041
Davis: We were
running negative ads
against George Bush.
1186
01:01:23,125 --> 01:01:24,583
George Bush was
running negative ads
1187
01:01:24,667 --> 01:01:25,750
against John McCain.
1188
01:01:25,834 --> 01:01:27,333
Announcer 2:
...tax plan isn't true,
1189
01:01:27,417 --> 01:01:28,667
and McCain
knows it.
1190
01:01:28,750 --> 01:01:30,834
It was the fight
of the century.
1191
01:01:30,917 --> 01:01:34,000
Reporter: The war of words
between George W. Bush
and John McCain
1192
01:01:34,083 --> 01:01:37,792
is heating up
even further as they battle
for votes in South Carolina.
1193
01:01:37,875 --> 01:01:39,667
McCain is accusing
the Bush campaign
1194
01:01:39,750 --> 01:01:41,917
of making misleading
phone calls to voters.
1195
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:44,834
Reporter 2:
Governor George W. Bush
still denies
1196
01:01:44,917 --> 01:01:47,875
that anyone in his campaign
is making negative phone calls.
1197
01:01:47,959 --> 01:01:52,667
But McCain's supporters are
now pointing to a conversation
videotaped on Saturday
1198
01:01:52,750 --> 01:01:56,000
between Governor Bush
and a supporter
in South Carolina.
1199
01:01:56,083 --> 01:01:58,709
They claim it shows
the Governor promising
1200
01:01:58,792 --> 01:02:00,709
more negative attacks
on McCain.
1201
01:02:00,792 --> 01:02:02,959
Hey, y'all haven't
even hit his soft spots.
1202
01:02:03,041 --> 01:02:05,083
I know.
We're going to.
1203
01:02:05,166 --> 01:02:07,709
Mmm. Well, they need to be.
Somebody does.
1204
01:02:07,792 --> 01:02:08,875
Exposed.
1205
01:02:08,959 --> 01:02:11,750
The phone calls went out
all over South Carolina,
1206
01:02:11,834 --> 01:02:14,125
"Do you know the McCains
have a black baby?"
1207
01:02:15,333 --> 01:02:18,166
Salter:
John and Cindy
had adopted
1208
01:02:18,250 --> 01:02:21,875
from one of Mother Teresa's
orphanages in Bangladesh,
1209
01:02:21,959 --> 01:02:26,333
a baby daughter,
a person of color.
1210
01:02:27,375 --> 01:02:29,000
And people were
getting calls, saying
1211
01:02:29,083 --> 01:02:31,375
that she was
his illegitimate daughter
1212
01:02:31,458 --> 01:02:34,583
from a relationship with
an African-American prostitute.
1213
01:02:34,667 --> 01:02:36,250
♪ ♪
1214
01:02:36,333 --> 01:02:39,417
Meghan:
I just remember it getting
really dark really fast.
1215
01:02:39,500 --> 01:02:41,917
It was like-- the last time
I was truly innocent
1216
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:43,583
in politics was before
that happened.
1217
01:02:43,667 --> 01:02:47,166
Reporter: In South Carolina,
proof that negative
campaigning works.
1218
01:02:47,250 --> 01:02:51,333
McCain support here
has dropped 10 points
in less than two weeks.
1219
01:02:51,417 --> 01:02:53,250
At a McCain
town hall meeting Thursday,
1220
01:02:53,333 --> 01:02:56,166
Donna Duran described
how her son idolized
1221
01:02:56,250 --> 01:02:59,917
the former Navy pilot and POW
until the 14-year-old Boy Scout
1222
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:03,625
answered a phone call allegedly
from a Bush pollster.
1223
01:03:03,709 --> 01:03:07,375
But he was
so upset when he came up
the stairs and he said,
1224
01:03:07,458 --> 01:03:11,542
"Mom, someone told me
that Senator McCain is a cheat
1225
01:03:11,625 --> 01:03:15,834
and a liar and a fraud."
And he was almost in tears.
1226
01:03:15,917 --> 01:03:19,417
Are you saying
that Governor Bush was
responsible for that call?
1227
01:03:19,500 --> 01:03:21,083
I don't know
who was responsible for it,
1228
01:03:21,166 --> 01:03:23,458
but I know that
the attacks go on.
1229
01:03:23,542 --> 01:03:25,458
He accused me
of dirty campaigning,
and I pulled out
1230
01:03:25,542 --> 01:03:28,333
some flier that said,
"Paid for by John McCain."
1231
01:03:28,417 --> 01:03:30,291
This is a--
this is an attack piece.
1232
01:03:30,375 --> 01:03:32,041
That is not
by my campaign.
1233
01:03:32,125 --> 01:03:33,709
Well, it says,
"Paid for by John McCain."
1234
01:03:33,792 --> 01:03:35,667
That is not
by my campaign.
1235
01:03:35,750 --> 01:03:38,208
McCain confirmed, John.
That is not
by my campaign.
1236
01:03:38,291 --> 01:03:39,792
Well, then somebody's
putting stuff out.
1237
01:03:39,875 --> 01:03:42,792
Davis:
It was getting bad.
And he says,
1238
01:03:42,875 --> 01:03:45,625
"Look, I want to take off
all the negative campaign ads.
1239
01:03:45,709 --> 01:03:48,500
I want to go positive."
I said, "Well, what do you mean,
1240
01:03:48,583 --> 01:03:50,083
"take off negative
campaign ads?
1241
01:03:50,166 --> 01:03:51,542
"We're in a slugfest
of our lives.
1242
01:03:51,625 --> 01:03:54,000
This is, you know, you know,
a battle to the death."
1243
01:03:55,083 --> 01:03:56,458
And he said, "Nope."
1244
01:03:56,542 --> 01:03:58,166
He said, "I want
to run a campaign
1245
01:03:58,250 --> 01:03:59,542
"that my daughter
would be proud of.
1246
01:03:59,625 --> 01:04:02,709
"I'd rather lose
an honorable campaign
1247
01:04:02,792 --> 01:04:04,333
than win a dishonorable one."
1248
01:04:06,083 --> 01:04:08,000
Reporter: Senator McCain
and Governor Bush
are running neck and neck
1249
01:04:08,083 --> 01:04:12,500
in South Carolina
with the primary there
now only eight days away.
1250
01:04:12,583 --> 01:04:15,333
On the most divisive issue
in South Carolina,
1251
01:04:15,417 --> 01:04:17,333
the Confederate flag
atop the state capitol,
1252
01:04:17,417 --> 01:04:21,792
both candidates have
staked out a position
of calculated ambiguity.
1253
01:04:21,875 --> 01:04:23,375
♪ ♪
1254
01:04:23,458 --> 01:04:27,166
Davis:
When you roll into a state
like South Carolina,
1255
01:04:27,250 --> 01:04:30,083
you're gonna
get asked every single day
by state reporters,
1256
01:04:30,166 --> 01:04:31,500
"What do you think
about the issue
1257
01:04:31,583 --> 01:04:33,542
of taking down
the Confederate flag?"
1258
01:04:34,667 --> 01:04:36,875
And so we worked out
some wording.
1259
01:04:36,959 --> 01:04:38,875
We said, "Well,
it's a state issue.
1260
01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:40,625
It's not what
we want to get into."
1261
01:04:40,709 --> 01:04:44,166
You know, "It was
a symbol of heritage."
1262
01:04:44,250 --> 01:04:46,000
When we sat down and talked
to John McCain about it,
1263
01:04:46,083 --> 01:04:48,792
he's like, you know,
"That's bullshit."
1264
01:04:48,875 --> 01:04:51,125
He argued with it,
was angry about it,
1265
01:04:51,208 --> 01:04:55,542
had crumpled it up at one point
and stuffed it in his pocket.
1266
01:04:55,625 --> 01:04:57,834
Reporter:
Senator, can you clarify
one thing? Your position
1267
01:04:57,917 --> 01:04:59,667
on the Confederate flag
flying over the South.
1268
01:04:59,750 --> 01:05:01,291
I've already done that.
I've already done that.
1269
01:05:01,375 --> 01:05:03,667
Can you clarify
that position?
I've already done it.
1270
01:05:03,750 --> 01:05:04,792
Can you tell me
what that is?
1271
01:05:04,875 --> 01:05:06,166
Yes, I'll give you
the piece of paper.
1272
01:05:06,250 --> 01:05:07,875
Reporter 2:
Senator, one moment.
Could I get you--
1273
01:05:07,959 --> 01:05:10,166
oh, excuse me.
Let's stop right here.
1274
01:05:10,250 --> 01:05:11,583
"I understand both sides.
1275
01:05:11,667 --> 01:05:13,166
"Some view it
as a symbol of slavery,
1276
01:05:13,250 --> 01:05:14,834
"others view it
as a symbol of heritage.
1277
01:05:14,917 --> 01:05:18,208
Personally, I see
the battle flag as a symbol
of heritage."
1278
01:05:19,625 --> 01:05:22,291
Davis:
It was one of
the very few instances
1279
01:05:22,375 --> 01:05:24,500
where we didn't follow
our instincts
1280
01:05:24,583 --> 01:05:26,125
rather than following
the polling data.
1281
01:05:26,208 --> 01:05:29,083
The only bad period
of the campaign
1282
01:05:29,166 --> 01:05:31,625
is when we did something
out of political expediency
1283
01:05:31,709 --> 01:05:35,291
rather than just telling
the truth and-- and we lost.
1284
01:05:35,375 --> 01:05:37,917
Anne Thompson:
John McCain, the maverick
1285
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:39,667
who rocked
the Republican establishment
1286
01:05:39,750 --> 01:05:41,792
with dramatic wins
in New Hampshire
and Michigan,
1287
01:05:41,875 --> 01:05:45,750
today chose
an equally dramatic setting
to halt his campaign.
1288
01:05:45,834 --> 01:05:47,667
I am no longer
an active candidate
1289
01:05:47,750 --> 01:05:49,917
for my party's nomination
for President.
1290
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:52,417
Thompson:
McCain says he will now
go back to the Senate,
1291
01:05:52,500 --> 01:05:54,417
his presidential bus ride over,
1292
01:05:54,500 --> 01:05:57,291
but he vows
his crusade will go on.
1293
01:05:57,375 --> 01:05:59,333
♪ ♪
1294
01:06:02,291 --> 01:06:05,625
I would say he's
one of the few politicians
I've ever covered
1295
01:06:05,709 --> 01:06:08,333
who has
an authentic inner voice.
1296
01:06:08,417 --> 01:06:11,959
Even when he does things
that are not great...
1297
01:06:12,041 --> 01:06:16,041
embracing the Confederate flag
while running for--
in South Carolina,
1298
01:06:16,125 --> 01:06:18,083
he knows he's not
doing something great.
1299
01:06:18,166 --> 01:06:19,917
Most politicians I cover,
1300
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:21,375
they rationalize it
to themselves,
1301
01:06:21,458 --> 01:06:24,208
and so there's
no honest interior voice there.
1302
01:06:24,291 --> 01:06:27,125
McCain has never been able
to lie to himself very well.
1303
01:06:27,208 --> 01:06:30,458
And so even
when he compromises
for political reasons,
1304
01:06:30,542 --> 01:06:32,625
he knows he's compromising
some piece of himself,
1305
01:06:32,709 --> 01:06:35,875
and I think there's
some piece of himself
that feels pretty bad about it.
1306
01:06:36,875 --> 01:06:40,083
♪ ♪
1307
01:06:42,250 --> 01:06:45,500
John:
I promised to tell
the truth always
1308
01:06:45,583 --> 01:06:48,083
about my intentions
and my beliefs.
1309
01:06:48,166 --> 01:06:52,166
I fell short of that standard
in South Carolina.
1310
01:06:52,250 --> 01:06:55,166
And I want to tell
the people of South Carolina
1311
01:06:55,250 --> 01:06:58,166
and all Americans
that I sincerely regret
1312
01:06:58,250 --> 01:07:02,000
breaking my promise
to always tell you the truth.
1313
01:07:02,083 --> 01:07:05,000
I was asked
during the course
of my campaign
1314
01:07:05,083 --> 01:07:08,834
how I personally felt about
the Confederate battle flag
1315
01:07:08,917 --> 01:07:11,000
that flies
above your state capitol.
1316
01:07:11,083 --> 01:07:14,041
I answered
that it was an issue
1317
01:07:14,125 --> 01:07:18,000
that the people
of South Carolina
could decide for themselves.
1318
01:07:18,083 --> 01:07:20,792
I did not answer
the question I was asked,
1319
01:07:20,875 --> 01:07:24,417
"How did I personally feel
about the flag?"
1320
01:07:25,667 --> 01:07:28,166
My ancestors fought
for the Confederacy,
1321
01:07:28,250 --> 01:07:30,625
and I'm sure that many,
maybe all of them,
1322
01:07:30,709 --> 01:07:32,792
fought with courage
and with faith
1323
01:07:32,875 --> 01:07:35,667
that they were serving a cause
greater than themselves.
1324
01:07:35,750 --> 01:07:38,583
But I don't believe
their service,
however distinguished,
1325
01:07:38,667 --> 01:07:42,375
needs to be commemorated
in a way that offends,
1326
01:07:42,458 --> 01:07:45,875
that deeply hurts people
whose ancestors
1327
01:07:45,959 --> 01:07:49,041
were once denied
their freedom by my ancestors.
1328
01:07:49,125 --> 01:07:53,041
That, my friends,
is how I personally feel
1329
01:07:53,125 --> 01:07:55,500
about the Confederate
battle flag.
1330
01:07:56,500 --> 01:07:57,750
I should have
done this earlier.
1331
01:07:57,834 --> 01:08:01,542
I did not do so
for one reason alone:
1332
01:08:01,625 --> 01:08:04,041
I feared that
if I answered honestly,
1333
01:08:04,125 --> 01:08:07,750
I could not win
the South Carolina primary.
1334
01:08:07,834 --> 01:08:10,417
So I chose to compromise
my principles.
1335
01:08:10,500 --> 01:08:13,709
I broke my promise
to always tell the truth.
1336
01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:17,583
I am not so naive
to believe that politics
1337
01:08:17,667 --> 01:08:19,291
must never involve compromise,
1338
01:08:19,375 --> 01:08:21,083
but I was raised to know
1339
01:08:21,166 --> 01:08:25,542
that I should never sacrifice
a principle for personal
ambition.
1340
01:08:27,291 --> 01:08:28,750
Brooks:
He grew up
with a moral code,
1341
01:08:28,834 --> 01:08:31,792
and it was a code
that preached honor, glory,
1342
01:08:31,875 --> 01:08:33,792
sacrifice for country.
1343
01:08:35,166 --> 01:08:38,041
We all have the one virtue
we aspire to most.
1344
01:08:38,125 --> 01:08:39,417
For McCain, it's courage,
1345
01:08:39,500 --> 01:08:41,417
and courage comes
in many forms:
1346
01:08:41,500 --> 01:08:43,166
the kind he displayed
in Vietnam,
1347
01:08:43,250 --> 01:08:44,709
but also intellectual courage
1348
01:08:44,792 --> 01:08:46,959
and moral courage
in politics.
1349
01:08:57,041 --> 01:08:59,166
Davis:
Even though we lost in 2000,
1350
01:08:59,250 --> 01:09:01,792
he was able to go back
to the United States Senate
1351
01:09:01,875 --> 01:09:04,041
a much more
powerful individual
1352
01:09:04,125 --> 01:09:05,500
than when
he started that campaign.
1353
01:09:09,834 --> 01:09:15,166
The best cure for losing
is get to work, get busy.
1354
01:09:15,250 --> 01:09:16,917
Man:
McCain.
1355
01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:20,291
John:
That's the only way
to get over this.
1356
01:09:20,375 --> 01:09:21,625
Yeah, we had some fun.
1357
01:09:21,709 --> 01:09:23,291
Yeah, how you doing?
1358
01:09:23,375 --> 01:09:26,834
So I redoubled my efforts
and my energies.
1359
01:09:28,333 --> 01:09:30,208
Reporter:
The battle over
campaign finance reform
1360
01:09:30,291 --> 01:09:32,834
is poised to play out
on the Senate floor this week,
1361
01:09:32,917 --> 01:09:35,834
but it's also shaping up to be
a fight between George Bush
1362
01:09:35,917 --> 01:09:38,041
and his formal rival,
Senator John McCain.
1363
01:09:38,125 --> 01:09:40,458
Chances are better
than they've ever been before.
1364
01:09:40,542 --> 01:09:44,500
Two years ago,
no one gave this a chance.
1365
01:09:44,583 --> 01:09:47,458
Every special interest
in this town
that uses money
1366
01:09:47,542 --> 01:09:50,000
in order to buy
access and influence
1367
01:09:50,083 --> 01:09:53,667
is apoplectic about the prospect
of losing that influence.
1368
01:09:53,750 --> 01:09:56,792
Tom Brokaw:
And a major victory tonight
for Senator John McCain
1369
01:09:56,875 --> 01:10:00,333
in his crusade to clean up
campaign financing.
1370
01:10:00,417 --> 01:10:02,792
On this vote, the yeas are 59,
1371
01:10:02,875 --> 01:10:07,917
the nays are 41, and the bill
as amended is passed.
1372
01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:09,875
The fact that--
1373
01:10:09,959 --> 01:10:13,291
When you work on
a senate staff and you've had
a big accomplishment
1374
01:10:13,375 --> 01:10:16,458
or something--
say McCain-Feingold passes,
1375
01:10:16,542 --> 01:10:18,041
the next day it's done.
1376
01:10:18,125 --> 01:10:20,542
You know, "What else?
What else?" is what he's
always saying to you.
1377
01:10:20,625 --> 01:10:23,709
"What else? What else can--
what do you-- tell me--
tell me something else."
1378
01:10:23,792 --> 01:10:27,667
He's wired differently
from other people that way.
1379
01:10:27,750 --> 01:10:30,208
Hillary Clinton: He is
the perpetual-motion machine,
1380
01:10:30,291 --> 01:10:33,875
and traveling
with him requires you
to keep up with him.
1381
01:10:33,959 --> 01:10:37,041
When he said, "I want to go
and study climate change,
1382
01:10:37,125 --> 01:10:40,208
I want to see for myself
what I'm reading about,"
1383
01:10:40,291 --> 01:10:42,917
I jumped on board.
1384
01:10:43,000 --> 01:10:46,291
And when we were
on these trips together,
he really zeroed in.
1385
01:10:46,375 --> 01:10:48,834
"Well, how did this happen?
Tell me a specific story.
1386
01:10:48,917 --> 01:10:53,041
What did that mean to you?"
And he'd listen to people.
1387
01:10:53,125 --> 01:10:56,917
You read in the paper,
"500 protesters killed
in Blank-stan."
1388
01:10:57,000 --> 01:10:59,458
John says, "Let's go."
1389
01:10:59,542 --> 01:11:02,750
And we met with dissidents and
John spoke up on their behalf,
1390
01:11:02,834 --> 01:11:05,417
and thank God
we got out of there.
1391
01:11:05,500 --> 01:11:08,083
He believes that human rights
are the birthright of all,
1392
01:11:08,166 --> 01:11:11,458
and-- and we ought
to speak up for people
that are being deprived them.
1393
01:11:11,542 --> 01:11:13,291
♪ ♪
1394
01:11:13,375 --> 01:11:15,583
I have a daughter
in the Peace Corps
in Cambodia,
1395
01:11:15,667 --> 01:11:19,750
and a Cambodian said,
"We need more influence
from the United States.
1396
01:11:19,834 --> 01:11:23,000
You know, John McCain,
he'll try to help us."
1397
01:11:24,458 --> 01:11:27,041
There's just some--
some random guy...
1398
01:11:31,041 --> 01:11:35,041
some random guy
in a rural province
in a third world country...
1399
01:11:36,208 --> 01:11:37,875
that know-- knows who he is...
1400
01:11:39,083 --> 01:11:40,500
knows he'll fight for him.
1401
01:11:42,166 --> 01:11:43,542
John:
Okay, guys, here we go.
1402
01:11:43,625 --> 01:11:45,792
Reporter:
US Senator John McCain
has returned
1403
01:11:45,875 --> 01:11:48,959
to the infamous prison known
as the "Hanoi Hilton."
1404
01:11:49,041 --> 01:11:51,166
I think a light bulb
had hung down
1405
01:11:51,250 --> 01:11:52,959
and a loudspeaker
in every cell.
1406
01:11:53,041 --> 01:11:55,792
Reporter:
McCain was accompanied
by his son Jack.
1407
01:11:55,875 --> 01:11:58,000
He was diplomatic
about what he'd seen.
1408
01:11:58,083 --> 01:12:00,959
It hasn't upset me
because my dad's never said
1409
01:12:01,041 --> 01:12:03,583
anything negative
towards this thing.
1410
01:12:03,667 --> 01:12:06,291
It's just...
where he was kept.
1411
01:12:06,375 --> 01:12:09,625
Reporter 2: Do-- do you
think you could've stay--
stayed there like he did?
1412
01:12:09,709 --> 01:12:11,417
Uh... I don't think so.
1413
01:12:11,500 --> 01:12:14,041
He's a lot stronger
of a person than I am.
1414
01:12:14,125 --> 01:12:15,625
Cindy:
Oh, that's good, okay.
1415
01:12:15,709 --> 01:12:18,333
Jack: If you ask him
about his experiences,
he will tell you
1416
01:12:18,417 --> 01:12:21,125
but it's a short, frank--
"Okay, well, what was it like?"
1417
01:12:21,208 --> 01:12:23,500
"Well, it wasn't great."
"What did they feed you?"
1418
01:12:23,583 --> 01:12:24,792
"Well, they fed me
cabbage soup."
1419
01:12:24,875 --> 01:12:26,667
Oh, it's nice to be back.
1420
01:12:26,750 --> 01:12:30,250
I've-- I've been here,
again, on many occasions,
1421
01:12:30,333 --> 01:12:35,083
and it's always nice to check
on the condition of my statue.
1422
01:12:35,166 --> 01:12:36,542
It's the only one I got.
1423
01:12:37,750 --> 01:12:40,166
Cindy:
It was important for John
1424
01:12:40,250 --> 01:12:43,041
to show Jack
what had happened,
1425
01:12:43,125 --> 01:12:44,917
'cause there are
several lessons in that,
1426
01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:46,500
not just what
happened to him...
1427
01:12:48,125 --> 01:12:52,792
...but what happened as
a result of this occasionally
mismanaged war.
1428
01:12:52,875 --> 01:12:54,959
♪ ♪
1429
01:12:59,667 --> 01:13:04,583
Not everything I base my views
on is about Vietnam,
1430
01:13:04,667 --> 01:13:07,458
but one heck
of a lot of it is.
1431
01:13:08,417 --> 01:13:11,000
With the experience
of Vietnam,
1432
01:13:11,083 --> 01:13:14,166
I always have a template
which to judge
1433
01:13:14,250 --> 01:13:17,875
whether we have
a strategy for success.
1434
01:13:17,959 --> 01:13:19,709
Slow down! Regroup!
1435
01:13:19,792 --> 01:13:22,041
John:
In both Iraq
and Afghanistan,
1436
01:13:22,125 --> 01:13:24,458
the strategy was,
"Don't lose."
1437
01:13:24,542 --> 01:13:26,709
If the strategy
is "Don't lose,"
1438
01:13:26,792 --> 01:13:28,500
then you don't win.
1439
01:13:28,583 --> 01:13:30,542
♪ ♪
1440
01:13:30,625 --> 01:13:33,125
Salter:
He is a passionate believer
1441
01:13:33,208 --> 01:13:36,375
in an exceptional America
1442
01:13:36,458 --> 01:13:38,375
that embodies its ideals,
1443
01:13:38,458 --> 01:13:41,750
protects them at home,
and advances them abroad.
1444
01:13:41,834 --> 01:13:46,625
That, he thinks,
is the greatest cause
anyone can serve.
1445
01:13:46,709 --> 01:13:48,333
♪ ♪
1446
01:13:48,417 --> 01:13:51,792
Barack Obama: American
leadership in the world
John, I think, recognizes
1447
01:13:51,875 --> 01:13:55,542
is not just a matter of us
having the biggest Air Force,
1448
01:13:55,625 --> 01:13:59,166
the mightiest ships,
or the latest weaponry,
1449
01:13:59,250 --> 01:14:01,500
it has to do
with people thinking
1450
01:14:01,583 --> 01:14:04,417
we're more likely than not
to do the right thing.
1451
01:14:04,500 --> 01:14:07,083
♪ ♪
1452
01:14:07,166 --> 01:14:10,291
Reporter:
This is a picture
of an Iraqi prisoner of war,
1453
01:14:10,375 --> 01:14:15,000
and according
to the US Army,
Americans did this to him.
1454
01:14:15,083 --> 01:14:17,917
The Army confiscated
some 60 pictures
1455
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:20,333
of Iraqi prisoners
being mistreated.
1456
01:14:21,917 --> 01:14:25,125
I'm gravely concerned
that many Americans will have
1457
01:14:25,208 --> 01:14:28,625
the same impulses I did
when I saw this picture,
1458
01:14:28,709 --> 01:14:31,375
and that's
to turn away from 'em.
1459
01:14:31,458 --> 01:14:35,166
And we risk losing public
support for this conflict.
1460
01:14:36,458 --> 01:14:39,333
As Americans turned away
from the Vietnam War,
1461
01:14:39,417 --> 01:14:41,625
they may turn away
from this one
1462
01:14:41,709 --> 01:14:45,291
unless this issue is
quickly resolved
1463
01:14:45,375 --> 01:14:47,000
with full disclosure,
1464
01:14:47,083 --> 01:14:49,959
so that we can be
assured and comforted
1465
01:14:50,041 --> 01:14:53,208
that something that
we never believed
could happen
1466
01:14:53,291 --> 01:14:55,375
will never happen again.
1467
01:14:56,750 --> 01:14:58,917
Biden:
The Bush administration's
judgment
1468
01:14:59,000 --> 01:15:01,667
about what constituted
"appropriate treatment"
1469
01:15:01,750 --> 01:15:05,917
of a prisoner of war
drove John over the edge.
1470
01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:08,500
What were
the instructions
to the guards?
1471
01:15:08,583 --> 01:15:12,333
That is what
the... investigation...
1472
01:15:12,417 --> 01:15:15,917
that I've indicated
has been undertaken
is determining.
1473
01:15:16,000 --> 01:15:18,375
But, Mr. Secretary,
that's a very simple,
1474
01:15:18,458 --> 01:15:20,625
straightforward question.
1475
01:15:20,709 --> 01:15:23,000
Well, the-- the--
1476
01:15:23,083 --> 01:15:26,000
as Chief of Staff
of the Army can tell you,
the guards are--
1477
01:15:26,083 --> 01:15:28,166
Biden:
The thing John understands
better than anyone else,
1478
01:15:28,250 --> 01:15:31,667
it's not only wrong,
it also is damaging.
1479
01:15:31,750 --> 01:15:35,959
It goes to the essence
of what it is to be an American.
1480
01:15:36,041 --> 01:15:39,417
We are a product
of our values.
1481
01:15:40,667 --> 01:15:43,125
Hillary Clinton:
He was just beside himself
1482
01:15:43,208 --> 01:15:45,125
with anger and frustration
1483
01:15:45,208 --> 01:15:48,208
and with the excuses
being given
1484
01:15:48,291 --> 01:15:51,125
by military
and civilian leaders.
1485
01:15:51,208 --> 01:15:55,041
He wants names, and he wants
people to be held accountable,
1486
01:15:55,125 --> 01:15:57,041
because he wants
to send a signal
1487
01:15:57,125 --> 01:16:00,709
this is not only unacceptable
for what happened in Iraq,
1488
01:16:00,792 --> 01:16:02,291
this is always unacceptable.
1489
01:16:03,458 --> 01:16:07,166
And he was not shy
about linking
1490
01:16:07,250 --> 01:16:10,917
that kind of outrageous,
dehumanizing behavior
1491
01:16:11,000 --> 01:16:16,458
with the collapse
and the repudiation
of American values.
1492
01:16:16,542 --> 01:16:19,750
My friends, we face
formidable challenges.
1493
01:16:19,834 --> 01:16:23,917
I'm not afraid of 'em.
I'm prepared for them.
1494
01:16:24,000 --> 01:16:26,250
I'm not
the youngest candidate,
1495
01:16:26,333 --> 01:16:29,083
but I am
the most experienced!
1496
01:16:31,875 --> 01:16:35,000
I know how to fight,
and I know how
to make peace.
1497
01:16:35,083 --> 01:16:39,166
I know who I am
and what I want to do.
1498
01:16:41,041 --> 01:16:45,083
Davis: He was, I think,
legitimately the right man
at the right time
1499
01:16:45,166 --> 01:16:47,875
to lead a nation
in a post-9/11 environment.
1500
01:16:47,959 --> 01:16:51,250
9/11 had a profound impact
not only on the country
1501
01:16:51,333 --> 01:16:53,458
and security
and the subsequent wars
1502
01:16:53,542 --> 01:16:56,917
in Afghanistan and Iraq,
but, also, on the American
electorate.
1503
01:16:57,000 --> 01:17:00,750
Now, that was
a wonderful opportunity
for Senator McCain,
1504
01:17:00,834 --> 01:17:04,166
who had always been
steeped in national security,
foreign policy,
1505
01:17:04,250 --> 01:17:06,875
and I think the early polling
demonstrated that.
1506
01:17:06,959 --> 01:17:09,166
He was significantly
in the lead.
1507
01:17:09,250 --> 01:17:11,917
And of course
at this time,
1508
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:14,625
it was John McCain
and Hillary Clinton,
1509
01:17:14,709 --> 01:17:17,959
that was the narrative
of the 2008 campaign.
1510
01:17:18,041 --> 01:17:22,291
Little did we know,
that narrative would be
turned upside down.
1511
01:17:26,542 --> 01:17:29,834
Obama:
I think John had great appeal
among independents.
1512
01:17:29,917 --> 01:17:33,375
John obviously had
the extraordinary biography.
1513
01:17:33,458 --> 01:17:36,625
He looked the part
and had the experience
1514
01:17:36,709 --> 01:17:38,458
of not just 18 years
in the Senate
1515
01:17:38,542 --> 01:17:40,333
but having run
for President before.
1516
01:17:40,417 --> 01:17:44,500
Because you decided that change
must come to Washington,
1517
01:17:44,583 --> 01:17:46,625
because you believe
1518
01:17:46,709 --> 01:17:50,291
that this year must be different
than all the rest.
1519
01:17:50,375 --> 01:17:52,291
Because--
1520
01:17:52,375 --> 01:17:55,000
Obama:
But we weren't really running
against John McCain.
1521
01:17:55,083 --> 01:17:59,583
We were running
for... a new direction
for the country.
1522
01:18:04,417 --> 01:18:08,000
It's been my honor
to welcome my friend...
1523
01:18:08,083 --> 01:18:11,792
John McCain as the nominee
of the Republican Party.
1524
01:18:13,834 --> 01:18:16,000
I wish you
all the best.
Thank you.
1525
01:18:16,083 --> 01:18:18,000
I'm proud
to be your friend.
Thank you, sir.
1526
01:18:18,083 --> 01:18:19,583
John McCain's running
for President,
1527
01:18:19,667 --> 01:18:21,750
the Iraq war's
about as popular
as a toothache,
1528
01:18:21,834 --> 01:18:24,959
and John says,
"No, we can't leave.
We've got to win."
1529
01:18:25,041 --> 01:18:27,542
And he stood
behind President Bush,
1530
01:18:27,625 --> 01:18:29,417
the surge,
adding more troops
1531
01:18:29,500 --> 01:18:31,166
at a time when everybody
wanted to get out.
1532
01:18:31,250 --> 01:18:33,709
♪ ♪
1533
01:18:36,291 --> 01:18:39,250
Davis:
If the 2000 campaign
was known as freewheeling,
1534
01:18:39,333 --> 01:18:41,500
easy access
to the media,
1535
01:18:41,583 --> 01:18:44,166
the 2008 campaign was
completely the opposite.
1536
01:18:44,250 --> 01:18:48,375
Okay, pal. Okay, guys.
We're having fun now.
1537
01:18:48,458 --> 01:18:51,542
John:
I wanted to bring the media
back on the bus.
1538
01:18:51,625 --> 01:18:56,083
I wanted them to be there
and have the same dialogue
we had before.
1539
01:18:56,166 --> 01:18:57,583
But they'd get on the bus,
1540
01:18:57,667 --> 01:18:59,709
and then it would be--
the challenge is:
1541
01:18:59,792 --> 01:19:02,917
Who can ask the
worst "gotcha" question?
1542
01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:04,959
I remember
I got on the bus one time
1543
01:19:05,041 --> 01:19:06,750
and one
of the questions was,
1544
01:19:06,834 --> 01:19:08,458
"What do you think
about the economy?"
1545
01:19:08,542 --> 01:19:10,750
And I said,
"Well, you know, I'm
working hard on the economy,
1546
01:19:10,834 --> 01:19:13,583
"because that hasn't
always been my top priority,
1547
01:19:13,667 --> 01:19:16,291
armed services,"
et cetera, et cetera.
1548
01:19:16,375 --> 01:19:18,542
The next day
in the "New York Times,"
1549
01:19:18,625 --> 01:19:22,250
"McCain said he's not familiar
with the economy."
1550
01:19:22,333 --> 01:19:23,959
Reporter:
What was the-- I'm--
So-- you know it.
1551
01:19:24,041 --> 01:19:26,333
You know it,
so I don't know--
even know why you ask.
1552
01:19:26,417 --> 01:19:28,041
Well, I ask 'cause I just--
No, you do know it.
1553
01:19:28,125 --> 01:19:30,750
You do know it.
No, I just read in the "Times"
that in May of '04--
1554
01:19:30,834 --> 01:19:32,792
I don't know what you me--
read or heard of
1555
01:19:32,875 --> 01:19:34,750
and I don't know
the circumstances.
1556
01:19:34,834 --> 01:19:36,792
Our coverage was annoying,
'cause we're trying to tell
the truth as we see it.
1557
01:19:36,875 --> 01:19:39,417
it's never quite
the truth as the candidate
and the campaign sees it,
1558
01:19:39,500 --> 01:19:41,458
so it's just always
gonna be annoying.
1559
01:19:41,542 --> 01:19:44,583
And I think if you react
to it at-- with hostility,
1560
01:19:44,667 --> 01:19:46,333
you end up
making it worse.
1561
01:19:46,417 --> 01:19:47,750
Reporter:
Can you recall--
I don't know,
1562
01:19:47,834 --> 01:19:49,917
but it's well known
that I had the conversation.
1563
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:52,000
It was absolutely
well known by everyone,
1564
01:19:52,083 --> 01:19:54,291
so do you have a question
on another issue?
1565
01:19:55,333 --> 01:19:57,291
John:
I think in 2008,
1566
01:19:57,375 --> 01:20:01,291
the environment
was much more toxic
1567
01:20:01,375 --> 01:20:03,458
than it was in 2000.
1568
01:20:03,542 --> 01:20:05,125
♪ ♪
1569
01:20:05,208 --> 01:20:08,125
Salter: We were
out there doing everything
we could to sort of show,
1570
01:20:08,208 --> 01:20:10,125
"Hey, this is
a different kind
of Republican."
1571
01:20:10,208 --> 01:20:13,458
But... it was a change election,
1572
01:20:13,542 --> 01:20:15,166
the country
was deeply unhappy,
1573
01:20:15,250 --> 01:20:17,625
and Barack Obama was
the biggest change on offer...
1574
01:20:17,709 --> 01:20:20,875
on the face of it,
on the face of it.
1575
01:20:21,959 --> 01:20:24,000
Kerry:
I have known
and been friends
1576
01:20:24,083 --> 01:20:27,166
with John McCain
for almost 22 years.
1577
01:20:27,250 --> 01:20:29,750
To those who still
believe in the myth
1578
01:20:29,834 --> 01:20:33,625
of a maverick
instead of the reality
of a politician,
1579
01:20:33,709 --> 01:20:36,542
I say let's compare
1580
01:20:36,625 --> 01:20:39,959
Senator McCain
to candidate McCain.
1581
01:20:40,041 --> 01:20:42,667
Candidate McCain says
that he would vote
1582
01:20:42,750 --> 01:20:46,583
against the immigration bill
that Senator McCain wrote.
1583
01:20:46,667 --> 01:20:49,458
Are you kidding me, folks?
1584
01:20:54,917 --> 01:20:57,291
The stakes could not be higher,
1585
01:20:57,375 --> 01:21:00,333
because we do know
what a Bush--
1586
01:21:00,417 --> 01:21:03,166
what a McCain administration
would look like.
1587
01:21:03,250 --> 01:21:05,125
There's a slip.
1588
01:21:05,208 --> 01:21:07,125
♪ ♪
1589
01:21:07,208 --> 01:21:13,166
Davis: George Bush was
the single least popular
sitting president in history.
1590
01:21:13,250 --> 01:21:15,333
His approval rating
was 25%,
1591
01:21:15,417 --> 01:21:20,375
and we were the third term
of the Bush administration.
1592
01:21:20,458 --> 01:21:22,083
Obama:
Just this morning,
1593
01:21:22,166 --> 01:21:24,542
Senator McCain
said that, actually,
1594
01:21:24,625 --> 01:21:28,166
he and President Bush share
a common philosophy.
1595
01:21:29,375 --> 01:21:31,375
That's right, Colorado.
1596
01:21:31,458 --> 01:21:33,625
I guess that was
John McCain finally giving us
1597
01:21:33,709 --> 01:21:35,291
a little straight talk.
1598
01:21:35,375 --> 01:21:38,375
If Senator Obama wants
to run against George Bush,
1599
01:21:38,458 --> 01:21:41,375
he should have run
for President four years ago.
1600
01:21:43,125 --> 01:21:46,500
Davis:
One of the things
that was the key to us
1601
01:21:46,583 --> 01:21:51,291
was to be able to regain
the mantle of "the maverick"...
1602
01:21:51,375 --> 01:21:54,959
and one of the most
critical decisions that
John McCain had to make
1603
01:21:55,041 --> 01:21:56,667
was who was going
to be his running mate,
1604
01:21:56,750 --> 01:22:00,166
and we had a lot
of good options--
at least we thought we did.
1605
01:22:00,250 --> 01:22:03,083
♪ ♪
1606
01:22:03,166 --> 01:22:05,250
When Rick Davis called me
1607
01:22:05,333 --> 01:22:08,834
and said John wanted to put me
on the shortlist for VP,
1608
01:22:08,917 --> 01:22:11,166
honestly, my reaction was,
"Are you kidding?"
1609
01:22:14,667 --> 01:22:18,917
Lieberman:
I think John felt there would
be a big message in this,
1610
01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:23,500
which is, this was gonna be
a bipartisan ticket.
Unprecedented.
1611
01:22:23,583 --> 01:22:28,000
You may ask,
"What's a Democrat doing here
1612
01:22:28,083 --> 01:22:30,083
supporting a Republican
for President?"
1613
01:22:32,667 --> 01:22:35,083
Bill McInturff:
John wanted to pick
Joe Lieberman.
1614
01:22:35,166 --> 01:22:37,500
If you're just sitting
around the abstract,
1615
01:22:37,583 --> 01:22:41,250
that's sort of interesting,
but I said, "Okay, here's--
1616
01:22:41,333 --> 01:22:43,750
"like, time-out. Time-out.
1617
01:22:43,834 --> 01:22:48,667
"Has anyone in this room
actually read the Republican
National Convention rules?
1618
01:22:48,750 --> 01:22:53,709
We're gonna have a blood bath
on the convention floor
just to nominate him."
1619
01:22:55,458 --> 01:22:58,333
He was unhappy
with that point of view,
1620
01:22:58,417 --> 01:23:01,333
and resisted it,
argued against it,
and kept maintaining it,
1621
01:23:01,417 --> 01:23:05,125
but, hey, you can't start off
the general campaign
1622
01:23:05,208 --> 01:23:08,208
with a convention that rejects
your vice-presidential choice.
1623
01:23:08,291 --> 01:23:10,291
How are you gonna win
in November?
1624
01:23:10,375 --> 01:23:11,875
♪ ♪
1625
01:23:11,959 --> 01:23:15,417
John: I should've said,
"Look, we've got a hell
of a campaign anyway.
1626
01:23:15,500 --> 01:23:18,542
Joe Lieberman
is my best friend,
we should take him."
1627
01:23:18,625 --> 01:23:21,542
But I was persuaded
by my political advisors
1628
01:23:21,625 --> 01:23:26,583
that it would be harmful,
and that was another mistake
that I made.
1629
01:23:27,875 --> 01:23:30,667
My friends
and fellow Americans,
1630
01:23:30,750 --> 01:23:34,333
I am very pleased
and very privileged
1631
01:23:34,417 --> 01:23:39,875
to introduce to you
the next Vice President
of the United States...
1632
01:23:48,667 --> 01:23:54,166
...Governor Sarah Palin
of the great state of Alaska.
1633
01:23:57,417 --> 01:23:59,041
Salter:
She was not chosen
1634
01:23:59,125 --> 01:24:02,667
because of her position
on any particular issue.
1635
01:24:02,750 --> 01:24:05,041
She had gotten
into politics as a reformer.
1636
01:24:05,125 --> 01:24:08,041
It was rightly noted
in Denver this week
1637
01:24:08,125 --> 01:24:12,083
that Hillary left
18 million cracks
1638
01:24:12,166 --> 01:24:14,875
in the highest, hardest
glass ceiling in America...
1639
01:24:16,458 --> 01:24:20,709
...but it turns out
the women of America
aren't finished yet,
1640
01:24:20,792 --> 01:24:24,542
and we can shatter
that glass ceiling
once and for all.
1641
01:24:24,625 --> 01:24:26,500
♪ ♪
1642
01:24:26,583 --> 01:24:29,083
Meghan:
I understand the choice.
1643
01:24:29,166 --> 01:24:31,041
It was a gamble,
my dad is a gambler,
1644
01:24:31,125 --> 01:24:33,041
and he always
rolls the dice.
1645
01:24:33,125 --> 01:24:34,375
I think they understood
1646
01:24:34,458 --> 01:24:36,583
that they had
to fight change
with change.
1647
01:24:38,000 --> 01:24:41,583
Davis:
That Friday we had erased
a 20-point margin
1648
01:24:41,667 --> 01:24:44,583
and for two weeks
we had a campaign
1649
01:24:44,667 --> 01:24:47,834
that was winning
the presidential election.
1650
01:24:47,917 --> 01:24:52,750
Our opponent is someone who sees
America as imperfect enough
1651
01:24:52,834 --> 01:24:57,166
to pal around with terrorists
who targeted their own country?
1652
01:24:58,333 --> 01:25:00,375
Brooks:
Politics is about serving,
1653
01:25:00,458 --> 01:25:03,500
and you can't serve
if you don't win.
1654
01:25:03,583 --> 01:25:06,250
And he was behind.
1655
01:25:06,333 --> 01:25:09,542
It was a long shot,
so he could justify
the pick by saying,
1656
01:25:09,625 --> 01:25:12,000
"I had to Hail Mary pass.
I had to try something."
1657
01:25:12,083 --> 01:25:15,250
And I don't think
he could have known
this at the time,
1658
01:25:15,333 --> 01:25:21,125
but in picking Sarah Palin,
he basically took a disease
1659
01:25:21,208 --> 01:25:22,834
that was running
through the Republican party--
1660
01:25:22,917 --> 01:25:24,834
not Palin herself,
she's a normal human being--
1661
01:25:24,917 --> 01:25:28,208
but a disease that
I'll call anti-intellectualism,
1662
01:25:28,291 --> 01:25:30,083
disrespect for facts,
1663
01:25:30,166 --> 01:25:32,959
and he put it right
at the center of the party,
1664
01:25:33,041 --> 01:25:34,625
and so she was a chapter
1665
01:25:34,709 --> 01:25:37,125
in the rise
of a cheap kind
of populism.
1666
01:25:37,208 --> 01:25:40,333
Woman:
Okay. I gotta
ask you a question.
1667
01:25:40,417 --> 01:25:42,625
I do not believe in--
1668
01:25:42,709 --> 01:25:44,542
I can't trust Obama.
1669
01:25:44,625 --> 01:25:46,458
I got you.
I have read about him,
1670
01:25:46,542 --> 01:25:48,709
and he's not--
he's not-- he's a...
1671
01:25:50,000 --> 01:25:52,417
He's an Arab.
He is not--
1672
01:25:52,500 --> 01:25:54,625
No, ma'am. No, ma'am.
No?
1673
01:25:54,709 --> 01:25:56,208
No, ma'am.
No, ma'am.
No, ma'am.
1674
01:25:56,291 --> 01:26:00,166
He's a-- he's a-- he's
a decent family man, citizen,
1675
01:26:00,250 --> 01:26:04,917
that I just happen
to have disagreements with--
on-- on fundamental issues,
1676
01:26:05,000 --> 01:26:06,750
and that's what
this campaign is all about.
1677
01:26:06,834 --> 01:26:11,041
He's not. Thank you.
Thank you. Yes, sir?
1678
01:26:11,125 --> 01:26:14,667
Obama: In an environment
in which he was already
having an uphill battle,
1679
01:26:14,750 --> 01:26:17,750
where the energy
of the party
1680
01:26:17,834 --> 01:26:23,041
was being captured
by his vice presidential
nominee, Sarah Palin,
1681
01:26:23,125 --> 01:26:30,625
and it was a much more
red meat, populist, angry tone.
1682
01:26:30,709 --> 01:26:35,291
For John, in the middle of that,
to say, "You know,
hold on a second.
1683
01:26:35,375 --> 01:26:37,458
"We don't demonize
each other.
1684
01:26:37,542 --> 01:26:39,667
We're all Americans,
we're all on the same team,"
1685
01:26:39,750 --> 01:26:45,208
I thought was an indication of--
of who John fundamentally was.
1686
01:26:45,291 --> 01:26:49,208
First of all,
I want to be President
of the United States,
1687
01:26:49,291 --> 01:26:51,875
and obviously I do not want
Senator Obama to be.
1688
01:26:51,959 --> 01:26:54,875
But I have to tell you--
I have to tell you,
1689
01:26:54,959 --> 01:26:56,917
he is a decent person
1690
01:26:57,000 --> 01:27:00,125
and a person that you
do not have to be scared
1691
01:27:00,208 --> 01:27:02,041
as President
of the United States.
1692
01:27:02,125 --> 01:27:06,166
Now, I-- I just--
now I just-- now look,
1693
01:27:06,250 --> 01:27:10,500
I-- I-- if I didn't think
I wouldn't be one heck of a lot
better president,
1694
01:27:10,583 --> 01:27:13,166
I wouldn't be running, okay?
And that's the point.
1695
01:27:13,250 --> 01:27:14,709
That's-- that's the point.
1696
01:27:14,792 --> 01:27:16,542
♪ ♪
1697
01:27:16,625 --> 01:27:19,667
On September 16th,
the entire campaign changed,
1698
01:27:19,750 --> 01:27:22,917
and that was the day
the economy collapsed.
1699
01:27:23,000 --> 01:27:25,000
People were being
thrown out of their jobs,
1700
01:27:25,083 --> 01:27:27,041
we were going
through a global upheaval,
1701
01:27:27,125 --> 01:27:29,750
and we were running
a presidential campaign
right in the middle of it.
1702
01:27:31,125 --> 01:27:33,500
Salter:
It was a terrible,
toxic environment
1703
01:27:33,583 --> 01:27:36,792
for anybody that had
an "R" next to their name.
1704
01:27:36,875 --> 01:27:40,083
Biden:
John was carrying
an 800-pound rock up a hill.
1705
01:27:40,166 --> 01:27:43,333
I mean, talk about
"good year, bad year."
1706
01:27:43,417 --> 01:27:44,917
It was a bad year.
1707
01:27:46,834 --> 01:27:48,458
John:
My friends, we have--
1708
01:27:48,542 --> 01:27:51,125
we have come to the end
of a long journey.
1709
01:27:51,208 --> 01:27:55,250
The American
people have spoken,
and they have spoken clearly.
1710
01:27:55,333 --> 01:27:59,291
A little while ago,
I had the honor of calling
1711
01:27:59,375 --> 01:28:02,417
Senator Barack Obama to
congratulate him--
1712
01:28:03,500 --> 01:28:04,625
please--
1713
01:28:06,375 --> 01:28:09,333
to congratulate him
on being elected
1714
01:28:09,417 --> 01:28:13,208
the next president
of the country
that we both love.
1715
01:28:13,291 --> 01:28:15,208
Obama:
He could not have been
more gracious.
1716
01:28:15,291 --> 01:28:18,250
He could not have been
more generous
1717
01:28:18,333 --> 01:28:22,458
about... wishing...
my administration well.
1718
01:28:22,542 --> 01:28:25,417
John:
It's natural tonight to feel
some disappointment,
1719
01:28:25,500 --> 01:28:28,750
but tomorrow,
we must move beyond it
1720
01:28:28,834 --> 01:28:33,166
and work together to get
our country moving again.
We fought--
1721
01:28:33,250 --> 01:28:35,917
Biden:
It was gracious.
It was futuristic.
1722
01:28:36,000 --> 01:28:38,250
It was about the country.
1723
01:28:38,333 --> 01:28:40,792
He was saying,
"Come on now, come on.
1724
01:28:40,875 --> 01:28:43,917
"Everybody get in here, man.
Help this man.
1725
01:28:44,000 --> 01:28:46,709
I'm gonna help him.
I'm here. I'm here."
1726
01:28:46,792 --> 01:28:49,125
John:
And I call on all Americans,
1727
01:28:49,208 --> 01:28:51,959
as I have often
in this campaign,
1728
01:28:52,041 --> 01:28:54,959
to not despair
of our present difficulties,
1729
01:28:55,041 --> 01:28:59,333
but to believe
always in the promise
and greatness of America,
1730
01:28:59,417 --> 01:29:01,917
because nothing
is inevitable here.
1731
01:29:02,000 --> 01:29:06,000
Americans never quit.
We never surrender.
1732
01:29:06,083 --> 01:29:10,250
We never hide from history.
We make history.
1733
01:29:10,333 --> 01:29:13,250
Thank you, God bless you,
and God bless America.
1734
01:29:13,333 --> 01:29:14,834
Thank you all
very much.
1735
01:29:19,041 --> 01:29:22,750
Sidney: My dad's calling
is to make America
a better place,
1736
01:29:22,834 --> 01:29:26,208
and my father is
very conservative.
I am not. I'm very liberal.
1737
01:29:26,291 --> 01:29:29,083
But we still managed to meet
on some issues that--
1738
01:29:29,166 --> 01:29:30,959
that are important
to both of us, so--
1739
01:29:31,041 --> 01:29:34,125
his heart is to make
a better country.
1740
01:29:34,208 --> 01:29:35,667
His heart is
what he believes in.
1741
01:29:35,750 --> 01:29:37,542
He's not doing this
to be self-serving.
1742
01:29:37,625 --> 01:29:40,667
He's doing it
because he's a true believer
that the country needs him.
1743
01:29:43,208 --> 01:29:46,917
A lot of people tried
to get me to say bad things
about him during that time,
1744
01:29:47,000 --> 01:29:49,625
and I was like,
"Are you crazy?
I would never do that.
1745
01:29:49,709 --> 01:29:51,875
You don't know me
or you wouldn't ask me."
1746
01:29:51,959 --> 01:29:53,083
I mean, I love the man.
1747
01:29:53,166 --> 01:29:55,417
I would never do anything
to harm him in any way.
1748
01:29:55,500 --> 01:29:58,834
I'm very sad
that he's going to be
leaving us in the next year.
1749
01:29:58,917 --> 01:30:01,208
It's heartbreaking.
It's not fair.
1750
01:30:01,291 --> 01:30:04,792
♪ ♪
1751
01:30:06,709 --> 01:30:09,166
Reporter: The office
of Senator John McCain
has announced tonight
1752
01:30:09,250 --> 01:30:12,959
that the Arizona Senator
has been diagnosed
with a brain tumor.
1753
01:30:14,500 --> 01:30:16,625
Reporter 2:
The 80-year-old Republican
from Arizona
1754
01:30:16,709 --> 01:30:21,375
has the same type
of cancer that took the life
of Senator Ted Kennedy.
1755
01:30:21,458 --> 01:30:26,000
Man:
Median survival is somewhere
between 14 and 15 months.
1756
01:30:26,083 --> 01:30:28,875
That said, people
with a fighting attitude,
1757
01:30:28,959 --> 01:30:31,875
such as Senator McCain,
tend to do better.
1758
01:30:31,959 --> 01:30:34,125
♪ ♪
1759
01:30:36,166 --> 01:30:37,750
I suspected something,
1760
01:30:37,834 --> 01:30:40,250
'cause there were
just little things that
were telling me things--
1761
01:30:40,333 --> 01:30:42,291
something wasn't right
with him.
1762
01:30:42,375 --> 01:30:45,125
Well at least in the minds
of this member,
1763
01:30:45,208 --> 01:30:47,500
there's a whole lot
of questions remaining.
1764
01:30:47,583 --> 01:30:51,625
He was complaining
of being very tired.
1765
01:30:51,709 --> 01:30:53,667
And he had be--
gotten wrapped
around the axle
1766
01:30:53,750 --> 01:30:57,291
on a question to FBI--
then FBI Director Comey
in a hearing.
1767
01:30:57,375 --> 01:30:59,750
I don't-- you're gonna have
to help me out here.
1768
01:30:59,834 --> 01:31:03,333
In other words, we're complete
in the investigation
1769
01:31:03,417 --> 01:31:06,792
of anything that former
Secretary Clinton had to do
1770
01:31:06,875 --> 01:31:11,625
with the campaign is over,
and we don't have to worry
about it anymore?
1771
01:31:11,709 --> 01:31:14,041
With respect to secret--
I'm a little confused, Senator.
1772
01:31:14,125 --> 01:31:17,000
With respect to Senator Clinton,
we investigated--
John: Yeah.
1773
01:31:17,083 --> 01:31:18,834
He had
a physical coming up,
1774
01:31:18,917 --> 01:31:22,917
and we made sure
that the schedule was such
that it couldn't be pushed--
1775
01:31:23,000 --> 01:31:25,709
it couldn't be,
'cause we thought, "He needs
to be looked at."
1776
01:31:28,291 --> 01:31:29,583
Davis:
I'm in the middle of lunch,
1777
01:31:29,667 --> 01:31:31,750
and I get a call
from Senator McCain.
1778
01:31:31,834 --> 01:31:34,792
He was in a car
driving to Sedona...
1779
01:31:34,875 --> 01:31:38,041
and in a very nonchalant way,
he says, "You know,
1780
01:31:38,125 --> 01:31:39,959
I had my checkup today,"
1781
01:31:40,041 --> 01:31:42,125
and he said,
"They just called me
and told me
1782
01:31:42,208 --> 01:31:44,125
to turn my car around
and come back."
1783
01:31:44,208 --> 01:31:50,000
♪ ♪
1784
01:31:50,083 --> 01:31:53,583
Reporter:
80-year old Senator John McCain
is resting comfortably at home
1785
01:31:53,667 --> 01:31:56,542
after surgeons
successfully removed
a small blood clot
1786
01:31:56,625 --> 01:31:58,166
above his left eye yesterday
1787
01:31:58,250 --> 01:32:00,834
at the Mayo Clinic Hospital
in Phoenix.
1788
01:32:00,917 --> 01:32:03,834
Now Senate Majority leader
Mitch McConnell says
1789
01:32:03,917 --> 01:32:06,667
the Senate will defer
a vote on the healthcare bill
1790
01:32:06,750 --> 01:32:09,125
until Senator McCain returns.
1791
01:32:10,417 --> 01:32:12,166
Davis:
He walked out
of the hospital
1792
01:32:12,250 --> 01:32:16,333
the day after brain surgery,
but he felt fine.
1793
01:32:16,417 --> 01:32:23,417
Now, did he feel fine
or did he convince you
that he felt fine?
1794
01:32:23,500 --> 01:32:29,625
Here's a guy who's gone
through enormous physical
challenges early in his life.
1795
01:32:29,709 --> 01:32:32,542
His knees are all busted up,
but he out-walks everybody
1796
01:32:32,625 --> 01:32:35,000
who ever tries to do
a campaign event with him.
1797
01:32:35,083 --> 01:32:37,041
You know, his shoulders
don't function properly,
1798
01:32:37,125 --> 01:32:38,333
he can't comb his own hair,
1799
01:32:38,417 --> 01:32:40,959
but he gets by through
the day looking just fine.
1800
01:32:42,583 --> 01:32:45,542
Salter:
He called me,
and he goes, "Look,
1801
01:32:45,625 --> 01:32:48,542
I want to give
this speech, you know,
1802
01:32:48,625 --> 01:32:50,375
about the healthcare vote
that's coming up."
1803
01:32:50,458 --> 01:32:54,834
I said, "Okay." I said,
"What-- have-- have they
got the results back?"
1804
01:32:54,917 --> 01:32:58,250
And he-- "Yeah, I got--
yeah, it's not-- not great."
1805
01:32:59,583 --> 01:33:02,417
The measure of the man...
is...
1806
01:33:04,250 --> 01:33:09,500
how he responds
under significant adversity.
1807
01:33:09,583 --> 01:33:13,667
And look at John.
Look at him. I mean...
1808
01:33:15,834 --> 01:33:17,333
He's a...
1809
01:33:22,250 --> 01:33:23,417
He's a good friend.
1810
01:33:36,583 --> 01:33:39,083
Meghan:
He said, "I have to go back
for the healthcare bill."
1811
01:33:39,166 --> 01:33:42,250
And I said,
"What could possibly happen
if he gets on a plane?"
1812
01:33:42,333 --> 01:33:45,750
And the doctor said that
he could, like, hemorrhage,
1813
01:33:45,834 --> 01:33:50,917
it can be dangerous if he still
has air in his brain,
and all this crazy stuff,
1814
01:33:51,041 --> 01:33:54,417
so I freaked out,
and I screamed at everyone
1815
01:33:54,500 --> 01:33:57,250
that he couldn't get
on the plane and that
I didn't agree with it.
1816
01:33:57,333 --> 01:34:00,750
And my dad snapped
at me and said,
1817
01:34:00,834 --> 01:34:03,291
"It's my life,
and it's my choice."
1818
01:34:05,875 --> 01:34:07,458
John:
I stand here today looking
1819
01:34:07,542 --> 01:34:11,166
a little worse for wear,
I'm sure.
1820
01:34:11,250 --> 01:34:13,583
I've been a member
of the United States Senate
for 30 years.
1821
01:34:13,667 --> 01:34:20,458
My service here
is the most important job
I've had in my life.
1822
01:34:20,542 --> 01:34:24,458
Brooks: His public service
has been so deeply entwined
with friendships,
1823
01:34:24,542 --> 01:34:27,625
and a lot of the friendships
have been with Democrats--
1824
01:34:27,709 --> 01:34:29,625
Ted Kennedy, Joe Biden.
1825
01:34:29,709 --> 01:34:31,959
And so out
of that sense of friendship
1826
01:34:32,041 --> 01:34:34,125
came a belief
that party was not everything,
1827
01:34:34,208 --> 01:34:36,583
and out of that came
a direct experience
1828
01:34:36,667 --> 01:34:39,667
with crafting
compromised legislation.
1829
01:34:39,750 --> 01:34:44,208
Let's trust each other.
Let's return to regular order.
1830
01:34:44,291 --> 01:34:47,208
We've been spinning
our wheels on too many
important issues,
1831
01:34:47,291 --> 01:34:50,333
because we keep trying
to find a way to win
1832
01:34:50,417 --> 01:34:52,083
without help
from across the aisle.
1833
01:34:52,166 --> 01:34:55,500
That's an approach
that's been employed
by both sides,
1834
01:34:55,583 --> 01:34:58,250
mandating legislation
from the top down
1835
01:34:58,333 --> 01:35:00,583
without any support
from the other side
1836
01:35:00,667 --> 01:35:03,417
with all the parliamentary
maneuvers that it requires.
1837
01:35:03,500 --> 01:35:05,959
We're getting
nothing done, my friends.
1838
01:35:06,041 --> 01:35:08,000
We're getting nothing done.
1839
01:35:08,083 --> 01:35:11,667
He decries the partisanship,
1840
01:35:11,750 --> 01:35:13,458
the ideological rigidity,
1841
01:35:13,542 --> 01:35:16,542
the refusal
to work together
1842
01:35:16,625 --> 01:35:18,125
and get something done
for the people
1843
01:35:18,208 --> 01:35:21,542
who were good enough
to send members of Congress
to Congress.
1844
01:35:21,625 --> 01:35:26,041
We tried to do this
by coming up with a proposal
1845
01:35:26,125 --> 01:35:28,083
behind closed doors
1846
01:35:28,166 --> 01:35:30,625
in consultation
with the administration,
1847
01:35:30,709 --> 01:35:33,917
then springing it
on skeptical members,
1848
01:35:34,000 --> 01:35:37,792
trying to convince them
that it's better than nothing.
1849
01:35:37,875 --> 01:35:39,709
"That it's better
than nothing"?
1850
01:35:39,792 --> 01:35:43,375
I think the vast majority
of Republicans and Democrats
know better.
1851
01:35:43,458 --> 01:35:45,750
They gotta start
to stand up and...
1852
01:35:47,625 --> 01:35:50,875
as John would say,
get back to regular order.
1853
01:35:50,959 --> 01:35:53,166
All "regular order" means
is you introduce a bill,
1854
01:35:53,250 --> 01:35:55,542
you have hearings,
you let the public see
what's going on,
1855
01:35:55,625 --> 01:35:57,417
you show the press,
you have witnesses,
1856
01:35:57,500 --> 01:35:59,417
you have amendments,
and you make up your mind.
1857
01:35:59,500 --> 01:36:01,834
That's how democracy
is supposed to work.
1858
01:36:01,917 --> 01:36:07,208
I will not vote
for this bill as it is today.
1859
01:36:09,875 --> 01:36:12,166
Lieberman:
I think the Republicans felt
1860
01:36:12,250 --> 01:36:15,375
that he had marshaled
all his physical strength
1861
01:36:15,458 --> 01:36:17,250
to come back
after the surgery
1862
01:36:17,333 --> 01:36:20,417
and that, naturally,
he would vote
1863
01:36:20,500 --> 01:36:22,875
with the Republican party...
1864
01:36:23,917 --> 01:36:26,000
but they totally misread John.
1865
01:36:26,959 --> 01:36:29,166
He came back
for a different reason.
1866
01:36:29,250 --> 01:36:32,166
He came back
to do the right thing
1867
01:36:32,250 --> 01:36:33,709
and to send a message
1868
01:36:33,792 --> 01:36:36,208
to his colleagues
and to the country.
1869
01:36:36,291 --> 01:36:37,792
John: I'll be here
for a few days.
1870
01:36:37,875 --> 01:36:42,041
After that I'm going home
for a while to treat my illness.
1871
01:36:42,125 --> 01:36:45,333
I have every intention
of returning here
1872
01:36:45,417 --> 01:36:47,792
and giving many of you
cause to regret
1873
01:36:47,875 --> 01:36:50,750
all the nice things
you said about me.
1874
01:36:50,834 --> 01:36:52,917
And I hope to impress
on you again
1875
01:36:53,000 --> 01:36:58,750
that it is an honor
to serve the American
people in your company.
1876
01:36:58,834 --> 01:37:01,500
Thank you,
fellow Senators.
1877
01:37:01,583 --> 01:37:03,959
Mr. President,
I yield the floor.
1878
01:37:19,500 --> 01:37:21,875
It's hard not to be proud
of John McCain, right?
1879
01:37:21,959 --> 01:37:24,166
He
1880
01:37:24,250 --> 01:37:27,291
he takes chances
that nobody else takes,
1881
01:37:27,375 --> 01:37:30,000
both with his health--
you know, to get on a plane
1882
01:37:30,083 --> 01:37:32,417
and go to Washington
to have an impact.
1883
01:37:33,417 --> 01:37:35,000
He takes chances
with his message,
1884
01:37:35,083 --> 01:37:38,166
you know, to tell people what
they probably need to hear
1885
01:37:38,250 --> 01:37:39,750
but don't ever want to hear.
1886
01:37:39,834 --> 01:37:44,291
And-- and he does it all
because of his insatiable desire
1887
01:37:44,375 --> 01:37:46,625
to have an impact
for the positive.
1888
01:37:46,709 --> 01:37:50,125
It's hard not to be
respectful of that guy.
1889
01:37:50,208 --> 01:37:54,500
♪ ♪
1890
01:38:03,834 --> 01:38:07,458
John:
I saw things
that I didn't agree with...
1891
01:38:08,709 --> 01:38:10,333
that I thought was wrong.
1892
01:38:11,834 --> 01:38:14,125
The American people
don't hold Washington
1893
01:38:14,208 --> 01:38:17,709
and the people who work there
in very high esteem.
1894
01:38:17,792 --> 01:38:20,834
We need to make sure
that we give the American people
1895
01:38:20,917 --> 01:38:24,250
what they deserve, and right now
they're not getting it.
1896
01:38:27,750 --> 01:38:31,917
I know that this is
a very vicious disease.
1897
01:38:34,208 --> 01:38:37,125
I greet every day
with gratitude...
1898
01:38:39,291 --> 01:38:43,291
and I will continue to do
everything that I can...
1899
01:38:45,500 --> 01:38:47,875
but I'm also very aware
1900
01:38:47,959 --> 01:38:51,500
that none of us
live forever.
1901
01:38:52,667 --> 01:38:54,875
I'm confident
and I'm happy
1902
01:38:54,959 --> 01:38:58,417
and I'm very grateful
for the life
1903
01:38:58,500 --> 01:39:01,291
I've been able to lead...
1904
01:39:01,375 --> 01:39:03,875
and I greet
the future with joy.
1905
01:39:07,667 --> 01:39:10,834
My grandfather loved his life
1906
01:39:10,917 --> 01:39:13,667
and he loved the fact
that he had to leave.
1907
01:39:14,667 --> 01:39:16,333
My father,
the same way.
1908
01:39:17,834 --> 01:39:20,625
I am the same way.
1909
01:39:20,709 --> 01:39:24,667
I love life, and I want
to stay around forever,
1910
01:39:24,750 --> 01:39:29,291
but I also believe
that there's a great honor
that you can die with.
1911
01:39:29,375 --> 01:39:31,834
♪ ♪
1912
01:39:33,417 --> 01:39:37,083
And by the way,
I reread Hemingway...
1913
01:39:37,166 --> 01:39:39,917
and Robert Jordan
is still my hero.
1914
01:39:40,000 --> 01:39:43,291
And Robert Jordan's
last thoughts were,
1915
01:39:43,375 --> 01:39:45,625
"It's been a great life
1916
01:39:45,709 --> 01:39:47,542
and well worth fighting for."
1917
01:39:51,166 --> 01:39:53,667
A hero is somebody who...
1918
01:39:55,083 --> 01:39:59,458
who does the right thing
no matter what,
1919
01:39:59,542 --> 01:40:03,375
and I think John,
throughout his life,
1920
01:40:03,458 --> 01:40:06,875
has been heroic
so many times.
1921
01:40:08,834 --> 01:40:11,959
So we shouldn't
be surprised
1922
01:40:12,041 --> 01:40:15,709
that, as he faces this
at the end of his life,
1923
01:40:15,792 --> 01:40:20,000
that he's still heroic and that
if he showed us how to live,
1924
01:40:20,083 --> 01:40:23,542
he's also--
1925
01:40:28,750 --> 01:40:30,625
he's also showing us
how to die.
1926
01:40:32,125 --> 01:40:34,583
♪ ♪
1927
01:40:42,250 --> 01:40:44,041
John:
I've had the good fortune
1928
01:40:44,125 --> 01:40:47,583
to spend 60 years in service
to this wondrous land.
1929
01:40:47,667 --> 01:40:51,166
Its not been
perfect service
to be sure,
1930
01:40:51,250 --> 01:40:53,041
and there were probably times
when the country
1931
01:40:53,125 --> 01:40:57,500
might have benefited
a little less of my help.
1932
01:40:57,583 --> 01:41:00,542
But I've tried to deserve
the privilege as best I can.
1933
01:41:00,625 --> 01:41:05,667
And I've been repaid
a thousand times over
with adventures,
1934
01:41:05,750 --> 01:41:08,291
with good company,
and with the satisfaction
1935
01:41:08,375 --> 01:41:11,208
of serving something
more important than myself,
1936
01:41:11,291 --> 01:41:17,291
of being a bit player
in the extraordinary
story of America,
1937
01:41:17,375 --> 01:41:20,125
and I am so grateful.
1938
01:41:21,291 --> 01:41:23,417
To fear the world
we have organized
1939
01:41:23,500 --> 01:41:25,834
and led for three-quarters
of a century,
1940
01:41:25,917 --> 01:41:29,500
to abandon the ideals
we have advanced
around the globe,
1941
01:41:29,583 --> 01:41:32,959
to refuse the obligations
of international leadership
1942
01:41:33,041 --> 01:41:36,750
and our duty to remain
the last best hope of Earth
1943
01:41:36,834 --> 01:41:40,875
for the sake
of some half-baked,
spurious nationalism
1944
01:41:40,959 --> 01:41:46,166
cooked up by people
who would rather find scapegoats
than solve problems...
1945
01:41:55,041 --> 01:41:57,917
is as unpatriotic
as an attachment
1946
01:41:58,000 --> 01:42:00,917
to any other tired dogma
of the past
1947
01:42:01,000 --> 01:42:05,041
that Americans consigned
to the ash heap of history.
1948
01:42:05,125 --> 01:42:07,083
With all its suffering
and danger,
1949
01:42:07,166 --> 01:42:09,750
the world still looks
to the example
1950
01:42:09,834 --> 01:42:12,083
and leadership
of America
1951
01:42:12,166 --> 01:42:15,125
to become
another better place.
1952
01:42:15,208 --> 01:42:19,709
What greater cause could
anyone ever serve?
1953
01:42:22,500 --> 01:42:24,500
♪ ♪
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