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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:31 pm Post subject: "Shaped after Saigon's fall" |
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An article in today's Globe highlights an event during McCain's congressional tenure that is, perhaps, worthy of note...
| Quote: | Shaped after Saigon's fall
Return visits to Vietnam helped mold McCain as a conciliator
By Sasha Issenberg
Globe Staff / June 23, 2008
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After McCain learned that antiwar activists Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden had been VIP attendees at a 1983 space-shuttle launch, he drafted a letter to White House aide Ken Duberstein protesting the "atrocity" and demanding that NASA's director "be held accountable."
"The fact that those two people who were responsible for so much agony and suffering upon my fellow POW's should be invited guests by this Administration is beyond my comprehension," McCain wrote.
Boston Globe - cont'd |
And you differentiate Kerry from Fonda and Hayden just how Senator? |
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LewWaters
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Perhaps McCain, Hanoi jane and Hayden never kissed and made up as he did with Kerry.
From a, August 2004 Newsmax Article
| Quote: | McCain biographer Paul Alexander chronicled the Arizona Republican's anger toward Kerry during their early careers in the Senate together.
"For many years McCain held Kerry's actions against him because, while McCain was a POW in the Hanoi Hilton, Kerry was organizing veterans back home in the U.S. to protest the war."
In his 2002 book, "Man of the People: The Life of John McCain," Alexander says that the two Vietnam vets finally reconciled in the early 1990s after having "a long - and at times emotional - conversation about Vietnam" during a mutual trip to Kuwait.
Later, Kerry sought to minimize the rift, telling Alexander: "Our differences occurred when we were kids, or at least close to being kids. It was a long time ago, and we both came back and realized that there were a lot of difficulties in the prosecution of that war." |
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