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John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936)
is the senior United States Senator from
Arizona and presidential nominee of the
Republican Party in the 2008 presidential
election. McCain graduated from the U.S.
Naval Academy in 1958. He became a naval
aviator, flying ground-attack aircraft from
aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he
nearly lost his life in the 1967 USS
Forrestal fire. Later that year while on a
bombing mission over North Vietnam, he was
shot down, badly injured, and captured as a
prisoner of war by the North Vietnamese. He
was held from 1967 to 1973, experiencing
episodes of torture and refusing an
out-of-sequence early repatriation offer; his
war wounds would leave him with lifelong
physical limitations. He retired from the
Navy as a captain in 1981 and, moving to
Arizona, entered politics. Elected to the
U.S. House of Representatives in 1982, he
served two terms, and was then elected to the
U.S. Senate in 1986, winning re-election
easily in 1992, 1998, and 2004. While
generally adhering to conservative
principles, McCain has gained a media
reputation as a "maverick" for disagreeing
with his party on several key issues. After
being investigated and largely exonerated in
a political influence scandal of the 1980s as
a member of the "Keating Five", he made
campaign finance reform one of his signature
concerns, which eventually led to the passage
of the McCain-Feingold Act in 2002. He is
also known for his work towards restoring
diplomatic relations with Vietnam in the
1990s, and for his belief that the war in
Iraq should be fought to a successful
conclusion in the 2000s. McCain has chaired
the powerful Senate Commerce Committee, and
has been a leader in seeking to rein in both
pork barrel spending as well as Senate
filibusters of judicial nominations. McCain
lost his bid for the Republican nomination in
the 2000 presidential election to George W.
Bush. He ran again for the Republican
presidential nomination in 2008, gained
enough delegates to become the party's
presumptive nominee in March 2008 and was
formally nominated at the 2008 Republican
National Convention on September 3. Part 6
Tags : John McCain RNC Speech Republican National Convention Saint Paul Minnesota Barack Obama Joe Biden Sarah Palin news grassroots outreach |
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Durée : 549 s |
| John McCain RNC Nomination Speech 5 |
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John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936)
is the senior United States Senator from
Arizona and presidential nominee of the
Republican Party in the 2008 presidential
election. McCain graduated from the U.S.
Naval Academy in 1958. He became a naval
aviator, flying ground-attack aircraft from
aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he
nearly lost his life in the 1967 USS
Forrestal fire. Later that year while on a
bombing mission over North Vietnam, he was
shot down, badly injured, and captured as a
prisoner of war by the North Vietnamese. He
was held from 1967 to 1973, experiencing
episodes of torture and refusing an
out-of-sequence early repatriation offer; his
war wounds would leave him with lifelong
physical limitations. He retired from the
Navy as a captain in 1981 and, moving to
Arizona, entered politics. Elected to the
U.S. House of Representatives in 1982, he
served two terms, and was then elected to the
U.S. Senate in 1986, winning re-election
easily in 1992, 1998, and 2004. While
generally adhering to conservative
principles, McCain has gained a media
reputation as a "maverick" for disagreeing
with his party on several key issues. After
being investigated and largely exonerated in
a political influence scandal of the 1980s as
a member of the "Keating Five", he made
campaign finance reform one of his signature
concerns, which eventually led to the passage
of the McCain-Feingold Act in 2002. He is
also known for his work towards restoring
diplomatic relations with Vietnam in the
1990s, and for his belief that the war in
Iraq should be fought to a successful
conclusion in the 2000s. McCain has chaired
the powerful Senate Commerce Committee, and
has been a leader in seeking to rein in both
pork barrel spending as well as Senate
filibusters of judicial nominations. McCain
lost his bid for the Republican nomination in
the 2000 presidential election to George W.
Bush. He ran again for the Republican
presidential nomination in 2008, gained
enough delegates to become the party's
presumptive nominee in March 2008 and was
formally nominated at the 2008 Republican
National Convention on September 3. Part 5
Tags : John McCain RNC Speech Republican National Convention Saint Paul Minnesota news grassroots outreach |
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Affichage : 5906
Durée : 568 s |
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