Biography

President Donald Trump was forbidden from attending his funeral.

Was the first sitting senator to host Saturday Night Live (1975).

Graduated, in 1958, fifth from the bottom of his class at the United States Naval Academy.

Of the three major U.S. Presidential candidates who chose a female running mate (Walter Mondale and Joe Biden are the other two), McCain is the only one, who didn't previously serve as Vice-President.

As a U.S. Navy pilot, he was captured on 26 October 1967, after his plane was shot down while on a bombing run over Hanoi. He parachuted into a lake, breaking both arms and a leg. He was then imprisoned at the notorious North Vietnamese hell-hole, known as the Hanoi Hilton. He had described his five and a half year imprisonment as a nightmarish time, in which he was beaten and kept in solitary confinement. Twice he tried to hang himself, only to be cut down and assaulted by the guards.

We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos. There will be genocide; and they will follow us home.

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

I am fully prepared to be commander-in-chief. I don't need on-the-job training.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike in the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.