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Former Presidential Candidate & Senator John McCain Dies At 81

Former Presidential Candidate & Senator John McCain Dies At 81

Ear Hustle 411 is saddened to report that days after stopping all treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer, Senator John McCain has succumbed to cancer.

See what is reported by CNN.

Senator, John McCain, who has died at the age of 81, was a naval bomber pilot, prisoner of war, American hero with a twinkle in his eye.

The Arizonan conservative maverick, giant of the Senate, twice-beaten presidential candidate and an abrasive warrior politician, who survived plane crashes, several bouts of skin cancer and brushes with political oblivion, often war seemed to be perpetually waging a race against time and his own mortality while striving to ensure that his five-and-a-half years as a Vietnam prisoner of did not stand as the defining experience of his life.

He spent his last few months out of the public eye in his adopted home state of Arizona, reflecting on the meaning of his life and accepting visits from a stream of friends and old political combatants.

In a memoir published in May, McCain wrote that he hated to leave the world, but had no complaints.

“It’s been quite a ride. I’ve known great passions, seen amazing wonders, fought in a war, and helped make peace,” McCain wrote. “I’ve lived very well and I’ve been deprived of all comforts. I’ve been as lonely as a person can be and I’ve enjoyed the company of heroes. I’ve suffered the deepest despair and experienced the highest exultation

“I made a small place for myself in the story of America and the history of my times.”

McCain had not been in Washington since December, leaving a vacuum in the corridors of the Senate and the television news studios he roamed for decades.

In recent months, he was not completely quiet, however, blasting President Donald Trump in a series of tweets and statements that showed that while he was ailing he had lost none of his appetite for the political fight.

The Arizona Senator repeatedly made clear that he saw Trump and his America First ideology as a departure from the values and traditions of global leadership that he saw epitomized in the United States.

 

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