McCain also grabbed a national spotlight by opposing President Ronald ReaganвЂ™s deployment of Marines to Lebanon. McCain diminished himself early, opposing the creation of the Martin Luther King Jr. And after his Naval career and first marriage stalled out, McCain moved with his new wife, Cindy, to Arizona, and pivoted to politics, winning election to the House of Representatives in 1983. News and World Report, in which he wrote of his torture by the вЂњgooksвЂќ and his admiration for вЂњPresident NixonвЂ™s courageвЂќ - including вЂњthe bombing in Cambodia.вЂќ Loyalty to the Republican war president earned McCain cachet in right-wing politics. On his homecoming, McCain penned a first-person account of his captivity for U.S. вЂњI had learned what we all learned over there,вЂќ McCain would reflect. His crash injuries were ill-treated, and McCain was tortured into writing a propaganda statement for the North Vietnamese. Months later, flying a bombing run over Hanoi, McCain was shot down and captured - suffering through more than five years as a prisoner of war.

Commander McCain was at the center of a catastrophic accident aboard the USS Forrestal the ensuing inferno claimed 134 sailorsвЂ™ lives and nearly sank the carrier. He crashed planes and even caused a minor international incident while вЂњclowningвЂќ in the skies over southern Spain.Дeploying to Vietnam in 1967, Lt. As a young Navy pilot, he displayed a higher aptitude for carousing than flying. Growing up rebellious and hot tempered, McCain graduated near the bottom of his class at Annapolis. His distant father, вЂњJunior,вЂќ also rose to four-star rank, serving as Commander-in-Chief of Pacific Command during the Vietnam War. His four-star grandfather commanded carrier operations in the Pacific during World War II. He was 81.Д«orn at a naval air station in Panama, John Sidney McCain III grew up Washington, D.C., in the shadow of admirals. By tapping Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for the 2008 ticket, McCain opened a PandoraвЂ™s Box of right-wing populism, energizing the nascent Tea Party and presaging the triumph of Donald Trump. And his dying regret that he did not select Joe Lieberman as his running mate does not heal the damage he did to our body politic. Many of his maverick moments covered for less-noble motivations вЂ“ of pique or public relations. McCainвЂ™s legacy is more complex than his legend, of course. Transcending an era of bitter partisanship and polarization, the charismatic McCain built a following across the American political spectrum. Throughout his career, McCain leveraged his relationship with the media - his вЂњbase,вЂќ he joked - to craft an image as a вЂњstraight-talking maverick,вЂќ a patriot who put country over party. The son and grandson of Navy admirals, McCain survived being taken prisoner during the Vietnam War, before launching a storied career in politics, rising to become the 2008 Republican nominee for president. At his death, he had served the United States of America faithfully for sixty years.

With the Senator when he passed were his wife Cindy and their family. Senator John Sidney McCain III died at 4:28pm on 25th August 2018. His family released the following statement: Legendary senator John McCain has died after a nearly year-long bout with glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer.

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