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| Contributor | RBH |
| Last Edited | RBH Feb 20, 2008 10:24pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, March 1, 2000 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | John McCain's campaign for president is built on character, integrity and values.
The handsome Navy pilot who spent more than five years as a prisoner of war. The white-haired senator tirelessly fighting the establishment in Washington. The father reading his 11-year-old son's homework as he sits next to his wife on the Straight Talk Express.
Those are the images the McCain campaign wants voters to remember.
Now there is another, less flattering picture to add to the mosaic: a restless Naval officer with a stalled career who cheated on his wife and left her for a younger, wealthier woman.
McCain has never denied that his personal life has a messy chapter. He always has taken responsibility for his divorce. But a long, detailed article by the New York Times on Sunday focused the spotlight on a dark corner of the Arizona senator's background that few voters knew existed.
According to the newspaper, McCain returned to Jacksonville in 1973 after more than five years as a prisoner of war to find that his wife was a different person. Carol McCain, once a model, had been badly injured in a car wreck in 1969. The article recounts that her injuries "left her 4 inches shorter and on crutches, and she gained a good deal of weight." |
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