John McCain: The war hero who became 共和国の/共和党の 大統領の 候補者

上院議員 John McCain, who 直面するd 負かす/撃墜する his captors in a Vietnam 囚人 of war (軍の)野営地,陣営 and later turned his 反抗的な streak into a 35-year political career, has died after 戦う/戦いing brain 癌 for more than a year.

Mr McCain, 81, was elected to the 上院 from Arizona six times but twice 妨害するd in 捜し出すing the 大統領/総裁などの地位.

Mr McCain returned to the 上院 in 2009, 決定するd not to let that 敗北・負かす define him.

In his valedictory memoir, The Restless Wave, Mr McCain wrote of the world he 住むd: “I hate to leave it. But I don’t have a (民事の)告訴. Not one.”

He continued: “I’ve known 広大な/多数の/重要な passions, seen amazing wonders, fought in a war and helped make a peace… I made a small place for myself in the story of America and the history of my times.”

But former 副/悪徳行為 大統領,/社長 Joe Biden put it this way: “I think John’s 遺産/遺物 is that he never やめるs.”

John McCain and his wife, Cindy (Stephan Savoia/AP)

John McCain and his wife, Cindy (Stephan Savoia/AP)

最終的に, Mr McCain did not 恐れる much, 含むing the wrath of 大統領 Donald Trump and his 共和国の/共和党の 同僚s.

顕著に just last year, Mr McCain was the 決定的な “no” on 法律制定 to 廃止する the Affordable Care 行為/法令/行動する.

That made him the ありそうもない saviour of the 署名 法律を制定する 業績/成就 of Barack Obama, the man who (警官の)巡回区域,受持ち区域 him for 大統領,/社長 in 2008. He also ran in 2000, losing the 共和国の/共和党の 指名/任命 to George W Bush.

Also 著名な were the times Mr McCain held his tongue in service of a party or political 伸び(る).

For a time, he stuck by the party’s 2016 大統領の 指名された人, Mr Trump, even when Mr Trump questioned his status as a war hero by 説: “I like people who weren’t 逮捕(する)d.”

Mr McCain 宣言するd the comment 不快な/攻撃 to 退役軍人s.

John McCain is greeted by President Richard Nixon after his release from a prisoner of war camp in North Vietnam. (Harvey Georges/AP)

John McCain is 迎える/歓迎するd by 大統領 Richard Nixon after his 解放(する) from a 囚人 of war (軍の)野営地,陣営 in North Vietnam. (Harvey Georges/AP)

His breaking point with Mr Trump was the 解放(する) a month before the 選挙 of a lewd 音声部の in which Mr Trump said he could kiss and 得る,とらえる women.

Mr McCain said he would rather 令状 in the 指名する of a 保守的な 共和国の/共和党の “who’s qualified to be 大統領,/社長”.

When Mr Trump 非難するd him for the 生き残り of the Affordable Care 行為/法令/行動する, Mr McCain 匂いをかぐd, “I’ve 直面するd tougher adversaries.”

John Sidney McCain III was born in 1936 in the パナマ Canal zone, where his father was 駅/配置するd in the 軍の.

He …に出席するd the US 海軍の 学院 and in October 1967, Mr McCain was on his 23rd 爆破 run over North Vietnam when he was 発射 out of the sky and taken 囚人.

He 辞退するd an 早期に 解放(する) 申し込む/申し出d by his captors as a 宣伝 策略.

Later, his will broken by beatings, Mr McCain 調印するd a 自白. That was his darkest hour in 捕らわれた. But his 回復 from that episode taught him to 信用 himself, he later wrote.

Mr McCain’s fellow 捕虜s 任命するd him (軍の)野営地,陣営 entertainment officer, chaplain and communications 長,指導者. To them, he imparted comic 救済, literary tutorials, news of the day ― and even 宗教的な sustenance.

Mr McCain returned home from his years as a 捕虜 on crutches and never 回復するd 十分な mobility in his 武器 and 脚.

In 1981, he married Cindy Hensley, the daughter of a 豊富な beer distributor in Arizona.

By 1982, he had been elected to the House and four years later to an open 上院 seat. He and Cindy had four children, to 追加する to three from his first marriage. Their youngest was 可決する・採択するd from Bangladesh.

Mr McCain cultivated a 保守的な 投票(する)ing 記録,記録的な/記録する and a 評判 as a tightwad with taxpayer dollars.

But just months into his 上院 career, he made what he called “the worst mistake” of his life, 参加するing in two 会合s with bank regulators on に代わって of Charles Keating, a friend, (選挙などの)運動をする contributor and 貯金 and 貸付金 financier later 罪人/有罪を宣告するd of 安全s 詐欺.

As one of the “Keating Five”, Mr McCain was 特記する/引用するd by the 上院 倫理学 委員会 for “poor 裁判/判断”. To have his honour questioned, he said, was in some ways worse than the 拷問 he 耐えるd in Vietnam.

In the 1990s, Mr McCain shouldered the long 成果/努力 to account for American 兵士s still 行方不明の from the war and to normalise relations with Vietnam.

He also took on 保守的なs in his party over the 連邦の 負債 and 民主党員s over 外交政策.

During his final years in the 上院, Mr McCain was perhaps the loudest 支持する for US 軍の 関与 in Iraq, Syria, Libya and more.

That often made him a critic of first Mr Obama and then Mr Trump, and moved him その上の away from the growing 孤立主義 within the 共和国の/共和党の Party.

In October 2017, Mr McCain blistered Mr Trump’s “America first” forei gn 政策 approach as a “half-baked, spurious 国家主義 cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems”.

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