A Biography of John McCain

A Biography of John McCain III

Born August 29, 1936, Panama Canal Zone ( US Territory )
Nationality American
Political party Republican
Spouse Carol Shepp, divorced; then Cindy Hensley McCain
Profession Naval Aviator, Businessman
Religion Episcopalian

John Sidney McCain III is an American politician, currently the Republican senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. He was a presidential candidate in the 2000 election, but was defeated by George W. Bush for the Republican nomination. On February 28, 2007, during a guest appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, McCain said he would be seeking the Republican Presidential nomination in the 2008 election, which he formally announced on April 25, 2007.Early life & military career

McCain was born in Coco Solo in the then American-controlled Panama Canal Zone to Admiral John S. McCain, Jr. & Roberta (Wright) McCain. Despite being born in a foreign country, his parents were both U.S. citizens & he acquired United States citizenship at birth, making him eligible for the Presidency. Both his father & grandfather were U.S. Navy admirals. His father commanded American forces in Vietnam while McCain was a prisoner of war. His grandfather John S. McCain, Sr. commanded naval aviation at the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. His mother is Roberta Wright (born 1912). He attended Episcopal High School & graduated in 1954. That fall, McCain entered the United States Naval Academy, like his father & grandfather. He graduated in 1958.

In 1965, McCain married Carol Shepp, a model originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. McCain adopted his wife's two children Doug & Andy. He & Carol then had a daughter named Sydney. The couple were divorced on April 2, 1980.

After graduating from Annapolis, McCain trained as a naval aviator at Pensacola, Florida, & Corpus Christi, Texas. During a practice run in Corpus Christi, his aircraft crashed into Corpus Christi Bay, though he escaped with no major injuries. Eventually he graduated & entered the U.S. Navy's light attack community.

Vietnam
McCain escaped death again on July 29, 1967. While Forrestal steamed off the coast of Vietnam preparing to launch attacks, a Zuni rocket from an F-4 Phantom was accidentally fired across the carrier's deck. The rocket struck McCain's A-4E Skyhawk as the jet was preparing for launch. The impact ruptured the Skyhawk's fuel tank, which ignited the fuel & knocked two bombs loose. McCain escaped from his jet by climbing out of the cockpit, working himself to the nose of the jet, & jumping off its refueling probe onto the burning deck of the aircraft carrier. Ninety seconds after the impact, one of the bombs exploded underneath his airplane. McCain was struck in the legs & chest by shrapnel. The ensuing fire killed 132 sailors, injured 62 others, destroyed at least 20 aircraft, & threatened to sink the ship. A video of the incident has been made available by McCain's Presidential Exploratory Committee.

After the Forrestal incident, McCain joined the VA-163 Saints on board the short-staffed Oriskany. Before McCain's arrival, on October 26, 1966, a mishandled flare caused a deck fire, resulting in the death of 44 men, including 24 pilots, & the Oriskany underwent significant repairs.

The Saints squadron & its parent Air Wing 16 suffered the highest loss rate of any Navy flying unit during the entire Vietnam War. These heavy losses have been attributed to the perilous missions assigned to the squadron & the aggressiveness of its aviators.

Prisoner of war McCain
On October 26, 1967, McCain's A-4 Skyhawk was shot down by an anti-aircraft missile, landing in North Vietnam's Truc Bach Lake, near Hanoi. He broke both arms & a leg after ejecting from his plane. After he regained consciousness, a mob gathered around him, spat on him, kicked him & stripped him of his clothing. He was then tortured by North Vietnamese soldiers, who bayonetted him in his left foot & groin. His shoulder was crushed by a rifle butt. He was then transported to the Hoa Lo Prison, also known as the "Hanoi Hilton".

Once McCain arrived at the prison, he was placed in a cell & interrogated daily. When he refused to provide any information to his captors, he was beaten until he lost consciousness.

When the North Vietnamese discovered his father was the Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Command, (CINCPAC), commander of all U.S. forces in Vietnam, he was offered a chance to return home. McCain turned down the offer of repatriation due to his "first in, first out" mentality. He demonstrated that he would only accept the offer if every man taken in before him was released as well.

Interview with McCain on April 24, 1974, after his return home.McCain signed an anti-American propaganda message as a result of rigorous & brutal torture methods, which to this day have left him incapable of raising his arms above his head. According to McCain, signing the propaganda message is something he most regrets during his time as a POW. After McCain signed the statement, the Vietnamese decided they could not use it. They tried to force him to sign a second statement, & this time he refused. He received two to three beatings per week because of his continued refusal.

McCain was held as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for five & a half years, mostly in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton", & was finally released from captivity in 1973, having been a POW for almost an extra five years due to his earlier refusal to accept an out of turn repatriation offer. McCain was reinstated to flight status & became Commanding Officer of the VA-174 Hellrazors, the East Coast A-7 Corsair II Navy training squadron.

In 1976 he became the Navy's liaison to the Senate. He retired from the Navy in 1981 as a captain. During his military career, he received a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, the Legion of Merit, the Purple Heart, & a Distinguished Flying Cross.

McCain is one of five Vietnam veterans currently serving in the U.S. Senate; the others are Thomas Carper (D-DE), Chuck Hagel (R-NE), John Kerry (D-MA), & Jim Webb (D-VA).

A television-based film entitled Faith Of My Fathers, based on McCain's memoir of his experiences as a POW, aired on Memorial Day, 2005 on A&E.

Political career

Senator John Sidney McCain IIIIn 1980, McCain married Cindy Hensley & moved to Phoenix. There he went to work for her father's Anheuser-Busch beer distributorship, where he gained political support among the local business community. When John Jacob Rhodes, the longtime Republican congressman from Arizona's 1st congressional district, announced his retirement, McCain ran for the seat as a Republican in 1982 & won. In 1986, upon Republican Senator Barry Goldwater's retirement, McCain was elected to succeed him.

2000 presidential primary
In 1997, TIME named him as one of the "25 Most Influential People in America". His best-selling family memoir, Faith of My Fathers (1999), helped propel his presidential run. This was a suprise, as Bush was seen as a clear fave, with a number of other candidates seen as only possible also rans to Bush, but McCain appeared with new ideas, that it is felt helped Bush, and his media team get a new trick, to get htghe media more onside off McCain in their fight against Gore. Of chatting to media people, and being pally with them on the tour. McCain had got the benefit of this, but the Republican establishment were with Bush and beat McCain's attempt to win, McCain was gerting independant's out and this helped him get high polls, even at times not fully supporting the Confederate flag, which was still popular in the south, (This harmed him in the south eventually, but helped his image nationally, and helped him be popular among some liberals to as long as 2008, this agenda. and stuff, so helping him last long, long longer than most candidates possible careers.) beating the Nixon adage be right wing on the primaries then sptint left in elections, but in the end Bush won with more of a Nixonian way in teh primaries. McCain skipped the Iowa caucus, focusing instead on the New Hampshire primary. In visits to towns he gave a ten-minute talk focused on campaign reform issues, then announced he would stay until he answered every question that everyone had. He made over 200 stops, talking in every town in New Hampshire in an example of "retail politics" that overcame Bush's famous name. He won by 49-30, & suddenly was the celebrity of the hour. Analysts predicted that a McCain victory in the crucial primary in South Carolina would give him unstoppable momentum. However, McCain lost South Carolina, allowing Bush to regain the momentum. Analysts attribute McCain's loss in South Carolina to Bush's mobilization of the state's evangelical voters. Each side made allegations of negative campaigning against the other. There was alleged to have been a push polling campaign by the Bush camp, in which phone calls were made to conservative Republican voters in the Deep South, allegedly to ask them whether they would support McCain if he had an illegitimate interracial daughter with a black woman. McCain in fact has an adopted daughter from Bangladesh. Accounts of this are covered in the books, Bush's Brain & Boy Genius. Additionally, conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh entered the fray supporting Bush. McCain never recovered from his defeat in South Carolina, although he did bounce back by winning in Michigan & Arizona. However, he made serious mistakes that negated any momentum he may have regained with the Michigan victory. In Virginia, he began criticizing conservative Christian leaders Pat Robertson & Jerry Falwell. McCain lost the Virginia primary & then, a week later, went on to lose 9 of the 13 primaries on Super Tuesday. His overall loss on that day has been attributed to his going "off message", ineffectively accusing Bush of being anti-Catholic in response to his visit to Bob Jones University & getting into a verbal battle with leaders of the Religious Right. McCain was also criticized for his continued use of an ethnic slur in reference to his Vietnamese captors. He told reporters, "I hate the gooks.... I will hate them as long as I live." At first, he stood by his use of the slur, saying that "it was applied to a small group of sadists & murderers & the kindest word I could use about them was that." Amid heavy criticism, McCain later reversed his position & apologized, though the delay aroused the ire of Asian Americans. McCain would go on to win a few more primaries (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut & Vermont), but in a two-man contest he was unable to catch up.

United States presidential election, 2004
McCain publicly supported President Bush in the 2004 U.S. presidential election. He often praised Bush's leadership since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. McCain's reputation as a moderate appealed to many voters who found President Bush too conservative, & in the 2000 elections, many saw Bush as the more conservative candidate & McCain as the more moderate candidate. In fact, according to Voteview.com, McCain's voting record in the 109th Congress was the third most conservative among senators. On the other hand, his voting record during the 107th Congress, from January 2001 through November 2002, placed him as the 6th most liberal Republican senator, according to the same analysis at voteview.com.

McCain's colleague, & also the 2004 Democratic Presidential nominee, John Kerry of Massachusetts, reportedly asked McCain to be his running mate. A slate that would have had very high poll ratings and at the time was seen as a more likely winner, that a link with any Dem at the time, as of linking and getting many moderate Reps, and indeps on side. Some felt this pondering could devastate McCaion long term but it has not to now.

McCain accused the "Swift Boat" campaign against Kerry of being "dishonest & dishonorable."

2008 presidential race
McCain announced he is seeking the 2008 Presidential nomination from the GOP on the February 28, 2007, telecast of the Late Show With David Letterman. On April 25, 2007, shortly after noon in Prescott Park on the waterfront of Portsmouth, NH McCain officially started his 2008 presidential campaign. He then visited Manchester, NH on the same day before starting a planned three day campaign rally in South Carolina, Iowa, Nevada, & Arizona.

Should McCain win in 2008, he would be the oldest person to assume the Presidency in history at initial ascension to office, being 72 years old & surpassing Ronald Reagan, who was 69 years old at his inauguration following the 1980 election. He has dismissed concerns about his age & past health concerns (malignant melanoma in 2000), stating in 2005 that his health was "excellent." In the event of his victory in 2008, he would also become the first President of the United States to be born in a U.S. territory outside of the current 50 states.

McCain's oft-cited strengths as a presidential candidate in 2008 include national name recognition, sponsorship of major lobbying & campaign finance reform initiatives, leadership in exposing the Abramoff scandal, military service (including years as a tortured POW), competing in the 2000 presidential campaign (where he won the New Hampshire primary), extensive fund-raising abilities, strong advocacy for President Bush's re-election campaign in 2004, & nominee for Vice President. A Time Magazine poll dated January 2007 shows McCain trailing Hillary Clinton by 1%; results also indicate that fewer Americans are familiar with McCain than any of the other frontrunners, including Republican candidate & former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, & Democratic hopeful Senator Barack Obama. During the 2006 election cycle, McCain attended 346 events & raised more than $10.5 million on behalf of Republican candidates. He also donated nearly $1.5 million to federal, state & county parties.

In May 2006, McCain gave the commencement address at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. During his 2000 presidential bid, McCain had called Falwell an "agent of intolerance." With significant coverage during the campaign, McCain said that he would never back down from his earlier statement. His later appearance at Liberty University prompted questions about the McCain-Falwell relationship & a possible presidential run in 2008. McCain backtracked & stated that Falwell is no longer as divisive & the two have discussed their shared values. McCain delivered a similar address at The New School commencement in Madison Square Garden. McCain was received by boos, jeers, & several students & professors turned their backs or waved fliers reading "McCain does not speak for me." McCain's speech mentioned his unwavering support for the Iraq War & focused on hearing opposing viewpoints, listening to each other, & the relevance of opposition in a democracy. At the recent inauguration of Alabama governor Bob Riley, McCain mentioned the incumbent as a possible running mate in the 2008 election.

Just after the 2004 election, he Giulliani and Clinton were front runners, and at the time, he and the New York ex-mayor were clearly leading Clinton, but the long running Iraq War crisis and other Republican Party policies see Clinton and the new Obama candidature to some in May 2007 as more likely winners, the dispiriting 2006 result was among the most important things to the popularity of the republicans as it devastated them and all the scandals, etc etc.

He hired a board member of the Project for the New American Century, Randy Scheunemann, as his foreign-policy aide.

In April 2007, McCain delivered three policy speeches. These focused on Iraq, the U.S. Economy, & on Energy.

Sen. McCain's April 11 speech on Iraq was delivered to the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) Corps of Cadets after his return from Iraq. His speech centered on his support for a new strategy in Iraq & his opposition to Democratic efforts towards troop withdrawal. The U.S. Senator repeated his criticism of the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq War on April 29, 2007 in Elko, Nevada, & stated that Donald Rumsfeld will be remembered as one the worst defense secretaries in history.

Sen. McCain delivered an April 16 speech on the U.S. Economy to the Economic Club of Memphis. In his speech, McCain criticized wasteful spending & reiterated his promise to make any sponsors of pork or earmarks "famous" when he becomes President.

Sen. McCain delivered an April 23 speech on Energy policy at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) at the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center in Washington D.C. His speech connected energy independence with national security, climate change, & the environment. McCain proposed increasing ethanol imports, moving from exploration to production of plug-in electric vehicles, & better harnessing nuclear power much as Europe has managed to do.

McCain participated in the first 2008 Republican Presidential Candidates Debate on May 3, 2007, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library along with the other Republican presidential contenders. The debate was sponsored by MSNBC, politico.com, The Reagan Library, & Nancy Reagan. In the six part MSNBC non-scientific online vote following the debate, McCain finished in 4th place (7.5%) behind 1st place Ron Paul's 43%. McCain received the most votes (33%) of any candidate on the question "Who had the most rehearsed answers?" However, this was not a scientifically valid survey or poll.

Political positions of John McCain
A lifelong Republican, McCain's American Conservative Union total rating is 82 percent with a 65 percent rating for 2006. However, McCain has supported some initiatives not agreed upon by his own party & has been called a "maverick" by some members of the American media.

McCain's reputation as a maverick stems from his active sponsorship of gun control legislation, sponsorship of the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Bill, he does not support gay rights issues, support for a guest worker program for illegal immigrants, his mixed record on environmental issues & affirmative action, & opposition to President Bush's $350 billion in tax breaks over 11 years, which are also known as the Bush Tax cuts. McCain later switched on the issue by saying he favored the tax cuts.

McCain also has many traditional Republican views that include: a Strong Pro life voting record, a strong free trade voting record(including a100% rating from the Cato Institute), wants private social security accounts, is against socialized health care, supports school vouchers, Supports the death penalty, Supports Mandatory sentencing, Supports the Patriot Act, Supports Welfare reform, & Wants more funding for the war on drugs.

According to a review by Gun Owners of America (GOA), "in 2001, McCain went from being a supporter of anti-gun bills to being a lead sponsor." Further, McCain was a key sponsor of what GOA calls the "odious McCain-Feingold Incumbent Protection Act. This legislation, characterized by its proponents as campaign finance reform, severely limits the abilities of groups like GOA to inform the public about the gun rights voting records of politicians already in office. In many cases, it becomes illegal to even mention a politician's name in on-air advertising the month before an election." Since 2004, McCain has gained the unique distinction of receiving an F- rating from Gun Owners of America; & further unlike any other 2008 Republican Presidential Candidate has a dedicated section/compendium within the GOA web site, which contains numerous pages relating to John McCain's very own "anti-Second Amendment" initiatives while in the Senate.

The Keating Five (or Keating Five Scandal) refers to a Congressional scandal related to the collapse of most of the Savings & Loan institutions in the United States in the late 1980s. McCain was one of five senators who met at least twice in 1987 with Ed Gray, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, seeking to prevent the government's seizure of Lincoln Savings & Loan, a subsidiary of Charles H. Keating's American Continental Corporation. Between 1982 & 1987, McCain received approximately $112,000 in political contributions from Keating & his associates. In addition, McCain's wife & her father had invested $359,100 in a Keating shopping center in April 1986, a year before McCain met with the regulators. McCain, his family & baby-sitter made at least nine trips at Keating's expense, sometimes aboard the American Continental jet. After learning Keating was in trouble over Lincoln, McCain paid for the air trips totalling $13,433. Federal regulators ultimately filed a $1.1 billion civil racketeering & fraud suit against Keating, accusing him of siphoning Lincoln's deposits to his family & into political campaigns. McCain received a rebuke from the Ethics Committee for exercising poor judgment for intervening with the federal regulators on behalf of Keating. On his Keating Five experience, McCain said: "The appearance of it was wrong. It's a wrong appearance when a group of senators appear in a meeting with a group of regulators, because it conveys the impression of undue & improper influence. & it was the wrong thing to do."

In 1998, McCain was chastised for reportedly making an off-color joke at a Republican fundraiser about President Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, saying "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno." McCain later apologized to President Clinton & Clinton accepted his apology.
McCain has acknowledged engaging in extramarital affairs upon returning from Vietnam. While he was in Vietnam, his wife Carol raised his three children. She was also severely injured in a car accident. Due to the accident, she had become 4 inches shorter, gained weight, & had to use crutches to walk.. He soon began engaging in extramarital affairs & in 1979, he met Cindy Hensley, a 25-year-old. He continued his extramarital affairs while living with his wife. A year later, McCain sought a divorce from Carol & a month after that, he married Cindy. The Hensley family fortune was important in launching his political career.
McCain openly used the term "gook", a racial slur to describe Vietnamese, in odd reference to his captors during the Vietnam War. During the 2000 Presidential Campaign, he repeatedly refused to apologize for his continued use of the term, stating that he reserved its reference only to his captors. Late in the primary season, with growing criticism from the Asian American community in the politically important state of California, McCain reversed his position, & vowed to no longer use the term in public.
On March 28, 2007, McCain claimed that "General Petraeus goes out [in Baghdad] almost every day in an unarmed humvee". On March 29, CNN's John Roberts revealed the results of his investigation into this claim, "I checked with General Petraeus’s people overnight & they said he never goes out in anything less than an up-armored humvee.” On the same day, McCain also claimed that "There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you & I could walk through those neighborhoods, today... The US is beginning to succeed in Iraq." Barry McCaffrey, on the same day, issued a report saying, “... no Iraqi government official, coalition soldier, diplomat reporter could walk the streets of Baghdad without heavily armed protection”.
On April 1, 2007, McCain & other lawmakers visited a Baghdad market & claimed that "things are better & there are encouraging signs". However, the visit was accompanied by enormous security measures, as McCain wore a bullet-proof vest, & was surrounded by more than 100 troops & escorted by attack helicopters. The day after McCain's visit, 21 workers & children from the market were murdered.
During a campaign appearance in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina on April 18, McCain was asked a question about possible military action against Iran. He responded by singing the lyrics of a 1980 song by Vince Vance & The Valiants, “Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran”, which parodied the Beach Boys' hit song Barbara Ann. When later confronted about the matter, McCain stated, "My response is lighten up, & get a life." Asked whether the joke he made was insensitive, McCain retorted, "Insensitive to what? The Iranians?"
During a taping of The Daily Show on April 24, 2007, Jon Stewart asked McCain, "What do you want to start with, the bomb Iran song or the walk through the market in Baghdad?" McCain responded by saying,"I think maybe shopping in Baghdad...I had something picked out for you, too — a little IED to put on your desk." On April 25, 2007, representative John Murtha demanded an apology from McCain on the floor of the House. McCain responded by telling Murtha & other critics to "Lighten up & get a life."
On his official MySpace page, he used a template without crediting its creator, & used images hosted on the creators site. In retaliation, the creator changed the images hosted on his site to read "Today I announce I have reversed my position & come out in full support of gay marriage... particularily marriage between passionate females". The images were quickly removed without apology.

Appearances on radio, television & in movies
He made a cameo in the 2005 summer movie Wedding Crashers.

He has been a regular guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, & is a good friend of the host Jon Stewart & the show. In McCain's most recent appearance on the show, Stewart claimed that McCain had been a guest on the Daily Show more times than any other person.

McCain hosted the October 12, 2002, episode of Saturday Night Live, making him the third U.S. Senator after Paul Simon & George McGovern, to host the show.

McCain is interviewed in the 2005 documentary Why We Fight by Eugene Jarecki.

McCain made a brief cameo on the television show 24.

He appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien in 2005 in a bit entitled Secrets.

A 2005 made-for-TV movie, Faith of My Fathers, was based on John McCain's memoirs of his experience in the Vietnam War.

Personal life
McCain lives with his second wife Cindy Hensley McCain in Phoenix. She is the chairman of the large Anheuser-Busch beer & liquor distributor Hensley & Company, founded by her father. Cindy suffered a stroke in April 2004 due to high blood pressure, but appears to have made a full recovery.

In 1979, McCain was living with his first wife while, according to Nicholas Kristof, he was "aggressively courting a 25-year-old woman who was as beautiful as she was rich." Kristof continues: "Mr. McCain abandoned his wife, who had reared their three children while he was in Vietnamese prisons, & he then began his political career with the resources of his new wife's family." His first wife & children have since forgiven him.

McCain has a history, beginning with his military career, of lucky charms & superstitions to gain fortune. While serving in Vietnam, he demanded that his parachute rigger clean his visor before each flight. On the 2000 campaign, he carried a lucky compass, feather, shoes, pen, penny & , at times, a rock. An incident when McCain misplaced his feather caused a brief panic in the campaign.

McCain has been treated for recurrent skin cancer, including melanoma, in 1993, 2000, & 2002.

He has seven children & four grandchildren. McCain adopted his first wife Carol's sons (Doug & Andy), & he & Carol had a daughter, (Sydney). He has three biological children with his wife Cindy — Meghan, John Sidney IV, & James; in addition, he & Cindy adopted a daughter, Bridget, from a Bangladeshi orphanage run by Mother Teresa. McCain's son John is currently enrolled in the U.S. Naval Academy, & his son James enlisted in the Marine Corps in 2006, & began recruit training in September 2006.

Awards
On February 13, 2007, the World Leadership Forum presented Senator John McCain with the Policymaker of the Year Award, at a private ceremony in Washington. The World Leadership Forum’s annual ‘Policymaker of the Year’ Award is given to a living individual who has created, inspired or strongly influenced important policy or legislation. The nationality or domicile of candidates has no influence on the outcome; the sole criterion is the quality of leadership shown.
On December 5, 2006, McCain was awarded the Henry M. Jackson Distinguished Service Award by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.
On September 28, 2005, The Eisenhower Institute awarded him the Eisenhower Leadership Prize. The prize recognizes individuals whose lifetime accomplishments reflect Dwight D. Eisenhower’s legacy of integrity & leadership.
In December 2004, McCain became an Honorary Patron of the University Philosophical Society at Trinity College Dublin.

This article was written in May 2007

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