LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
HUFFINGTON
03.31.13
The Lion
in Winter
N THIS WEEK’S issue, Jon Ward puts
the spotlight on John
McCain and finds the
longtime senator both pursuing
new fights with characteristic grit
and reflecting on his legacy.
“McCain knows he is living out
the closing chapters of a storied
career,” Jon writes, in a story that
sweeps from McCain’s youth as
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a Navy fighter pilot and Vietnam
prisoner of war to his 2008 presidential nomination and subsequent loss to Barack Obama. At
76, the man who once wrote that
earning the respect of his father
and grandfather — who cast long
shadows as four-star admirals in
the U.S. Navy — was “the most
lasting ambition of my life,” is still
raring for a fight, from his proposals for immigration reform to
his cross-examination of Hillary
Clinton on the Benghazi attacks.
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