Transcript for Remembering John McCain’s 2008 presidential run
We want tourn now to our Ron Claiborne. Ron, you coveredccain’s presidential campaign in 2008. You had tremus access in the beginning, spoke with him on muiple occasions. What do you reme most about I joined him in late 2007 when he was so far behind, H really had nothing to lose.it was just a fun,licking ride withim.t ofaccess, sitting with him on the buskingo him, not just about politics. T anything.he was a B srt he told wonderfuories and a great,at joke teller. And one of the iember him telling again andagain, and often bewildery the J it was always darkest right before it’s totally black. The audience were, like, what that’s abhe would blaughing and hing his head off, bu kn was ultimately charming at times, prickly, defensive in the later F that 2008 camp, but he was most of honor. A man of his own code, and I remember he was given a bracelet by the mother of a fallen Iraq war veteran, matthewnley. He put that on wrist in 2007, and talked about it ten,said that he would wea the rest of his life. I a feeling he was wearing THA bracelet at the end of his lif weekend. You talk about his sense of humor. Capitol hill, eight ore years ag and first thing he sd T me, hesaid, areou the intern? He said, pardon me.on me. I think I’m getting so old everybody around me looks like a D. Carried O He was a fun guy.bsolutely. Thank you for your perspective. This is a big week in terms ofomting John mn.over the course the week, there be a lot of commemorating events. D.C. Where he’ll lie in U.S. Capitol, and then he will make a stop at the war memorialthis is an important personal landmark fo the nator,e visited once a week Somes. Then a service at T cathedrafore he travto his finalting spot a U.S. Naval academy in annapolis, maryland.our coverage on John McCain will
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