“I’ve been tested on a number of occasions, I haven’t always done the right thing. The important thing is not to look back and figure out all the things I should have done, and there’s lots of those, but to look back with gratitude.”- John McCain
After suffering from Brain Cancer the six-term senator from Arizona, the prisoner of war, one of the most influential American politician and presidential candidate John McCain dies at the age of 81. He was absent from Washington since last December but remained outspoken to the end.
A statement from his office said: “Senator John Sidney McCain III died at 4.28pm on 25 August 2018. With the senator when he passed were his wife Cindy and their family. At his death, he had served the United States of America faithfully for 60 years.”
President Trump tweeted “Our hearts and prayers are with you!” recently Trump clashed bitterly with McCain.
Tributes to McCain, Barack Obama, who defeated McCain for the presidency in 2008, said “Few of us have been tested the way John once was or required to show the kind of courage that he did. But all of us can aspire to the courage to put the greater good above our own. At John’s best, he showed us what that means. And for that, we are all in his debt”.
McCain’s death will leave a vacuum in a Republican party. His legacy will be devotedly debated. the As he was a staunch supporter of President George W Bush’s invasion of Iraq in 2003. He was no liberal but he opposed both Trump’s first attempt at a travel ban for six majority-Muslim nations, calling it potentially “a self-inflicted wound in the fight against terrorism”.
While doing a surgical procedure to remove a blood clot from near his left eye doctors found an aggressive form of brain tumour known as glioblastoma. McCain spent his final months with his second wife, Cindy, at their ranch in Sedona, Arizona.
> Alma Siddiqua
US: John McCain Dies at 81
