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343173 | M23 motorway | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=M23%20motorway | M23 motorway
sliproads to meet the A23 and a flyover above the junction built for the onward northern continuation remains unused.
The cancellation of the unbuilt northern section from the M25 in towards Central London has resulted in the A23 carrying the majority of traffic through South London to the motorway. This ... | 8,100 |
343173 | M23 motorway | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=M23%20motorway | M23 motorway
construction consortium. It gives only off-access southbound and on-access northbound.
# Unbuilt sections.
The M23 was planned to relieve congestion on the A23 through Streatham, Thornton Heath, Purley and Coulsdon in south London and was originally intended to terminate in Streatham Vale at a junction w... | 8,101 |
343173 | M23 motorway | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=M23%20motorway | M23 motorway
route had not been chosen at that time for the northern section, approval was met for the route south of the Greater London boundary at Hooley.
By 1972 the southern section of Ringway 2 had been dropped from the plan, with an alternative proposal that the M23 continue further into London to end on Ringway... | 8,102 |
343173 | M23 motorway | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=M23%20motorway | M23 motorway
at an unsuitable location on Croydon Road (A232) before the plan was postponed indefinitely. By the late 1970s, the area along the proposed line of the motorway had become affected by blight, and while the proposals were finally dropped in the mid-1980s, much of the land reserved for the route was not rele... | 8,103 |
343173 | M23 motorway | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=M23%20motorway | M23 motorway
three stack interchanges in the UK, is indicative of the importance attached to the M23 at that time.
# Smart motorway.
From the start of July 2018 works have been taking place to upgrade a part of the M23 to an all-lane-running motorway. This is between junction 8, with the M25 and junction 10 with the ... | 8,104 |
343173 | M23 motorway | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=M23%20motorway | M23 motorway
roads.
There are no current plans of upgrading the motorway north of the M25, due to it reducing to the A23 with single lane traffic only 3 km further north at junction 7. There are no current plans of extending the smart motorway south either.
# Junctions.
Data from driver location signs are used to pr... | 8,105 |
343173 | M23 motorway | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=M23%20motorway | M23 motorway
dred metres (yards) and start and end points are available, both are cited.
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!scope=col abbr="Northbound"|Northbound exits (B carriageway)
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- Distances in kilometres and carriageway identifi... | 8,106 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American politician and military officer, who served as a United States senator from Arizona from January 1987 until his death. He previously served two terms in the United States House of Representatives and was the Republican n... | 8,107 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
during Operation Rolling Thunder over Hanoi in October 1967, he was shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese. He was a prisoner of war until 1973. He experienced episodes of torture and refused an out-of-sequence early release. During the war, he sustained wounds that left him with... | 8,108 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
for his willingness to break from his party on certain issues. His supportive stances on LGBT rights, gun regulations, and campaign finance reform were significantly more liberal than those of the party's base. McCain was investigated and largely exonerated in a political influence scandal of the 1980s as o... | 8,109 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
key role in alleviating a crisis over judicial nominations.
McCain entered the race for the Republican nomination for president in 2000, but lost a heated primary season contest to Governor George W. Bush of Texas. He secured the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, but lost the general election. Mc... | 8,110 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
vote against the ACA-repealing American Health Care Act of 2017.
After being diagnosed with brain cancer in 2017, McCain reduced his role in the Senate in order to focus on treatment. He died on August 25, 2018, four days before his 82nd birthday. Following his death, McCain lay in state in the Arizona Sta... | 8,111 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
to naval officer John S. McCain Jr. (1911–1981) and Roberta (Wright) McCain (b. 1912). He had an older sister Sandy and a younger brother Joe. At that time, the Panama Canal was under U.S. control.
McCain's family tree includes Scots-Irish and English ancestors. His father and his paternal grandfather, Joh... | 8,112 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
boarding school in Alexandria. He excelled at wrestling and graduated in 1954. He referred to himself as an Episcopalian as recently as June 2007 after which date he said he came to identify as a Baptist.
Following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, McCain entered the United States Naval Acade... | 8,113 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
did not always obey the rules, which contributed to a low class rank (894 of 899), despite a high IQ. McCain graduated in 1958.
## Naval training, first marriage, and Vietnam War assignment.
McCain began his early military career when he was commissioned as an ensign and started two and a half years of tr... | 8,114 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
early to mid-1960s, two of his flight missions crashed and a third mission collided with power lines, but he received no major injuries. His aviation skills improved over time, and he was seen as a good pilot, albeit one who tended to "push the envelope" in his flying.
On July 3, 1965, McCain was 28 when h... | 8,115 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
Operation Rolling Thunder, during the Vietnam War. Stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin, McCain and his fellow pilots became frustrated by micromanagement from Washington, and he later wrote, "In all candor, we thought our civilian commanders were complete idiots who didn't have the least notion of what it took ... | 8,116 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
volunteered for assignment with the , another aircraft carrier employed in Operation Rolling Thunder. There he was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal and the Bronze Star Medal for missions flown over North Vietnam.
## Prisoner of war.
McCain was taken prisoner of war on October 26, 1967. He was flying hi... | 8,117 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
Lò Prison, nicknamed the "Hanoi Hilton".
Although McCain was seriously wounded and injured, his captors refused to treat him. They beat and interrogated him to get information, and he was given medical care only when the North Vietnamese discovered that his father was an admiral. His status as a prisoner o... | 8,118 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
March 1968, McCain was placed into solitary confinement, where he remained for two years.
In mid-1968, his father John S. McCain Jr. was named commander of all U.S. forces in the Vietnam theater, and the North Vietnamese offered McCain early release because they wanted to appear merciful for propaganda pur... | 8,119 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
from using prisoners for propaganda, officers were to agree to be released in the order in which they were captured.
Beginning in August 1968, McCain was subjected to a program of severe torture. He was bound and beaten every two hours; this punishment occurred at the same time that he was suffering from h... | 8,120 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
and maltreated in order to extract "confessions" and propaganda statements; virtually all of them eventually yielded something to their captors. McCain received two to three beatings weekly because of his continued refusal to sign additional statements.
McCain refused to meet various anti-war groups seekin... | 8,121 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for five and a half years until his release on March 14, 1973. His wartime injuries left him permanently incapable of raising his arms above his head. After the war, McCain returned to the site with his wife Cindy and family on a few occasions to try to come to terms w... | 8,122 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
therapy. He attended the National War College at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. during 1973–1974. He was rehabilitated by late 1974 and his flight status was reinstated. In 1976, he became Commanding Officer of a training squadron that was stationed in Florida. He improved the unit's flight readiness and s... | 8,123 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
and the beginning of my second career as a public servant." His key behind-the-scenes role gained congressional financing for a new supercarrier against the wishes of the Carter administration.
In April 1979, McCain met Cindy Lou Hensley, a teacher from Phoenix, Arizona, whose father had founded a large be... | 8,124 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
Cohen and Gary Hart attending as groomsmen. McCain's children did not attend, and several years passed before they reconciled. John and Cindy McCain entered into a prenuptial agreement that kept most of her family's assets under her name; they kept their finances apart and filed separate income tax returns.... | 8,125 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
Navy as a captain on April 1, 1981. He was designated as disabled and awarded a disability pension. Upon leaving the military, he moved to Arizona. His numerous military decorations and awards include the Silver Star, two Legion of Merits, Distinguished Flying Cross, three Bronze Star Medals, two Purple Hea... | 8,126 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
work for Hensley & Co., his new father-in-law Jim Hensley's large Anheuser-Busch beer distributorship. As vice president of public relations at the distributorship, he gained political support among the local business community, meeting powerful figures such as banker Charles Keating Jr., real estate develo... | 8,127 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
what a "Phoenix Gazette" columnist later described as "the most devastating response to a potentially troublesome political issue I've ever heard":
McCain won a highly contested primary election with the assistance of local political endorsements, his Washington connections, and money that his wife lent to... | 8,128 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
give full support [in 1990] for a state holiday in Arizona."
At this point, McCain's politics were mainly in line with those of President Ronald Reagan; this included support for Reaganomics, and he was active on Indian Affairs bills. He supported most aspects of the foreign policy of the Reagan administra... | 8,129 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
won re-election to the House easily in 1984, and gained a spot on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. In 1985, he made his first return trip to Vietnam, and also traveled to Chile where he met with its military junta ruler, General Augusto Pinochet.
## Growing family.
In 1984, McCain and Cindy had their ... | 8,130 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
after he defeated his Democratic opponent, former state legislator Richard Kimball, by 20 percentage points in the 1986 election. McCain succeeded longtime American conservative icon and Arizona fixture Barry Goldwater upon the latter's retirement as U.S. senator from Arizona.
Senator McCain became a membe... | 8,131 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
Act, which codified rules regarding Native American gambling enterprises. McCain was also a strong supporter of the Gramm-Rudman legislation that enforced automatic spending cuts in the case of budget deficits.
McCain soon gained national visibility. He delivered a well-received speech at the 1988 Republic... | 8,132 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
from Charles Keating Jr. and his associates at Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, along with trips on Keating's jets that McCain belatedly repaid, in 1989. In 1987, McCain was one of the five senators whom Keating contacted in order to prevent the government's seizure of Lincoln, and McCain met twice wit... | 8,133 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
acting improperly or violating any law or Senate rule, but was mildly rebuked for exercising "poor judgment". In his 1992 re-election bid, the Keating Five affair was not a major issue, and he won handily, gaining 56 percent of the vote to defeat Democratic community and civil rights activist Claire Sargent... | 8,134 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
Vietnam War POW/MIA issue, to determine the fate of U.S. service personnel listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War. The committee's unanimous report stated there was "no compelling evidence that proves that any American remains alive in captivity in Southeast Asia." Helped by McCain's efforts, in... | 8,135 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
that supports the emergence of political democracy worldwide.
In 1993 and 1994, McCain voted to confirm President Clinton's nominees Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg whom he considered to be qualified for the U.S. Supreme Court. He later explained that "under our Constitution, it is the president's c... | 8,136 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold on campaign finance reform; their McCain–Feingold bill attempted to put limits on "soft money". The efforts of McCain and Feingold were opposed by some of the moneyed interests targeted, by incumbents in both parties, by those who felt spending limits impinged on free politic... | 8,137 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
military operations in Somalia. Another target of his was pork barrel spending by Congress, and he actively supported the Line Item Veto Act of 1996, which gave the president power to veto individual spending items but was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1998.
In the 1996 presidential electi... | 8,138 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
purview, but in response said the small contributions he received were not part of the big-money nature of the campaign finance problem. McCain took on the tobacco industry in 1998, proposing legislation that would increase cigarette taxes in order to fund anti-smoking campaigns, discourage teenage smokers,... | 8,139 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
environmental lawyer Ed Ranger. In the February 1999 Senate trial following the impeachment of Bill Clinton, McCain voted to convict the president on both the perjury and obstruction of justice counts, saying Clinton had violated his sworn oath of office. In March 1999, McCain voted to approve the NATO bomb... | 8,140 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
1999, McCain's memoir "Faith of My Fathers", co-authored with Mark Salter, was published; a reviewer observed that its appearance "seems to have been timed to the unfolding Presidential campaign." The most successful of his writings, it received positive reviews, became a bestseller, and was later made into... | 8,141 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
announced his candidacy for president on September 27, 1999, in Nashua, New Hampshire, saying he was staging "a fight to take our government back from the power brokers and special interests, and return it to the people and the noble cause of freedom it was created to serve". The frontrunner for the Republi... | 8,142 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
and he used free media to compensate for his lack of funds. One reporter later recounted that, "McCain talked all day long with reporters on his Straight Talk Express bus; he talked so much that sometimes he said things that he shouldn't have, and that's why the media loved him." On February 1, 2000, he won... | 8,143 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
campaigns", while "The New York Times" called it "a painful symbol of the brutality of American politics". A variety of interest groups, which McCain had challenged in the past, ran negative ads. Bush borrowed McCain's earlier language of reform, and declined to dissociate himself from a veterans activist w... | 8,144 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
plants. The smears claimed that McCain had fathered a black child out of wedlock (the McCains' dark-skinned daughter was adopted from Bangladesh), that his wife Cindy was a drug addict, that he was a homosexual, and that he was a "Manchurian Candidate" who was either a traitor or mentally unstable from his ... | 8,145 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
in hell for people like those." According to one acquaintance, the South Carolina experience left him in a "very dark place".
McCain's campaign never completely recovered from his South Carolina defeat, although he did rebound partially by winning in Arizona and Michigan a few days later. He made a speech ... | 8,146 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
Tuesday to Bush. With little hope of overcoming Bush's delegate lead, McCain withdrew from the race on March 9, 2000. He endorsed Bush two months later, and made occasional appearances with the Texas governor during the general election campaign.
# Senate career, 2000–2008.
## Remainder of third Senate te... | 8,147 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
between the two remaining from the previous year's campaign. Later, when a Republican senator, Jim Jeffords, became an Independent, thereby throwing control of the Senate to the Democrats, McCain defended Jeffords against "self-appointed enforcers of party loyalty". Indeed, there was speculation at the time... | 8,148 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
attacks, McCain supported Bush and the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. He and Democratic senator Joe Lieberman wrote the legislation that created the 9/11 Commission, while he and Democratic senator Fritz Hollings co-sponsored the Aviation and Transportation Security Act that federalized airport security.
In ... | 8,149 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
that Iraq was "a clear and present danger to the United States of America", and voted accordingly for the Iraq War Resolution in October 2002. He predicted that U.S. forces would be treated as liberators by a large number of the Iraqi people. In May 2003, McCain voted against the second round of Bush tax cu... | 8,150 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
system aimed at returning greenhouse gas emissions to 2000 levels; the bill was defeated with 55 votes to 43 in the Senate. They reintroduced modified versions of the Act two additional times, for the final time in January 2007 with the co-sponsorship of Barack Obama, among others.
In the 2004 U.S. preside... | 8,151 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
of the War on Terror since the September 11 attacks. At the same time, he defended Kerry's Vietnam War record. By August 2004, McCain had the best favorable-to-unfavorable rating (55 percent to 19 percent) of any national politician; he campaigned for Bush much more than he had four years previously, though... | 8,152 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
the ability of senators to filibuster judicial nominees, but only in "extraordinary circumstances". The compromise took the steam out of the filibuster movement, but some Republicans remained disappointed that the compromise did not eliminate filibusters of judicial nominees in all circumstances. McCain sub... | 8,153 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
proponent of comprehensive immigration reform, which would involve legalization, guest worker programs, and border enforcement components. The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act was never voted on in 2005, while the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 passed the Senate in May 2006 but faile... | 8,154 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
the 2000s (decade), the increased Indian gaming that McCain had helped bring about was a $23 billion industry. He was twice chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, in 1995–1997 and 2005–2007, and his Committee helped expose the Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal. By 2005 and 2006, McCain was pus... | 8,155 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
and detention without trial at Guantánamo Bay, saying: "some of these guys are terrible, terrible killers and the worst kind of scum of humanity. But, one, they deserve to have some adjudication of their cases ... even Adolf Eichmann got a trial". In October 2005, McCain introduced the McCain Detainee Amend... | 8,156 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
in December 2005 that he accepted McCain's terms and would "make it clear to the world that this government does not torture and that we adhere to the international convention of torture, whether it be here at home or abroad". This stance, among others, led to McCain being named by "Time" magazine in 2006 a... | 8,157 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
to CIA personnel."
Meanwhile, McCain continued questioning the progress of the war in Iraq. In September 2005, he remarked upon Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers' optimistic outlook on the war's progress: "Things have not gone as well as we had planned or expected, nor as we were told by ... | 8,158 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
Larry Sabato said, "McCain owns Iraq just as much as Bush does now." The surge and the war were unpopular during most of the year, even within the Republican Party, as McCain's presidential campaign was underway; faced with the consequences, McCain frequently responded, "I would much rather lose a campaign ... | 8,159 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
do something; to do the hard but necessary things, not the easy and needless things."
McCain's oft-cited strengths as a presidential candidate for 2008 included national name recognition, sponsorship of major lobbying and campaign finance reform initiatives, his ability to reach across the aisle, his well-... | 8,160 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
while maintaining that such contributions would not affect any official decisions he would make. Despite being considered the front-runner for the nomination by pundits as 2007 began, McCain was in second place behind former Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani in national Republican polls as the year progr... | 8,161 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
campaign chief strategist both departed. McCain slumped badly in national polls, often running third or fourth with 15 percent or less support.
The Arizona senator subsequently resumed his familiar position as a political underdog, riding the Straight Talk Express and taking advantage of free media such as... | 8,162 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
the endorsements of "The Boston Globe", the "New Hampshire Union Leader", and almost two dozen other state newspapers, as well as from Senator Lieberman (now an Independent Democrat). McCain decided not to campaign significantly in the January 3, 2008, Iowa caucuses, which saw a win by former Governor of Ar... | 8,163 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson, with drawing votes from Huckabee in South Carolina, thereby giving a narrow win to McCain.
A week later, McCain won the Florida primary, beating Romney again in a close contest; Giuliani then dropped out and endorsed McCain.
On February 5, McCain won both the majority of... | 8,164 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
president who was born outside the contiguous forty-eight states. This raised a potential legal issue, since the United States Constitution requires the president to be a natural-born citizen of the United States. A bipartisan legal review, and a unanimous but non-binding Senate resolution, both concluded t... | 8,165 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
McCain's prognosis appeared favorable, according to independent experts, especially because he had already survived without a recurrence for more than seven years. In May 2008, McCain's campaign briefly let the press review his medical records, and he was described as appearing cancer-free, having a strong ... | 8,166 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
an estimated net worth of $100 million, made part of her tax returns public in May. After facing criticism about lobbyists on staff, the McCain campaign issued new rules in May 2008 to avoid conflicts of interest, causing five top aides to leave.
When Obama became the Democrats' presumptive nominee in earl... | 8,167 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
staff about Davis's Russian links but gave no further warnings.
Throughout the summer of 2008, Obama typically led McCain in national polls by single-digit margins, and also led in several key swing states. McCain reprised his familiar underdog role, which was due at least in part to the overall challenges... | 8,168 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
and ability to lead, compared to Obama's.
On August 29, 2008, McCain revealed Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his surprise choice for a running mate. McCain was only the second U.S. major-party presidential nominee (after Walter Mondale, who chose Geraldine Ferraro) to select a woman for his running mate an... | 8,169 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
campaign's own later admission, the rollout of Palin to the national media went poorly, and voter reactions to Palin grew increasingly negative, especially among independents and other voters concerned about her qualifications.
McCain's decision to choose Sarah Palin as his running mate was criticized; "Ne... | 8,170 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
who would say absurdities ... unleashing a political style and a values system that animated the Tea Party movement and laid the groundwork for a Trump presidency." Although McCain said later that he expressed regret for not choosing the independent Senator Joe Lieberman as his VP candidate instead, he cons... | 8,171 |
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crisis. McCain's intervention helped to give dissatisfied House Republicans an opportunity to propose changes to the plan that was otherwise close to agreement. After Obama declined McCain's suspension suggestion, McCain went ahead with the debate on September 26. On October 1, McCain voted in favor of a re... | 8,172 |
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a symbol of American small business dreams that would be thwarted by an Obama presidency. He barred using the Jeremiah Wright controversy in ads against Obama, but the campaign did frequently criticize Obama regarding his purported relationship with Bill Ayers. His rallies became increasingly vitriolic, wit... | 8,173 |
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one of the finer moments of the campaign and was still being viewed several years later as a marker for civility in American politics. Meghan McCain said that she cannot "go a day without someone bringing up (that) moment," and noted that at the time "there were a lot of people really trying to get my dad t... | 8,174 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
11:00 pm Eastern Standard Time; McCain delivered his concession speech in Phoenix, Arizona about twenty minutes later. In it, he noted the historic and special significance of Obama being elected the nation's first African American president. In the end, McCain won 173 electoral votes to Obama's 365; McCain... | 8,175 |
43715 | John McCain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McCain | John McCain
Obama, and the two discussed issues they had commonality on. Around the same time, McCain indicated that he intended to run for re-election to his Senate seat in 2010. As the inauguration neared, Obama consulted with McCain on a variety of matters, to an extent rarely seen between a president-elect and his ... | 8,176 |
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Sotomayor—saying that while undeniably qualified, "I do not believe that she shares my belief in judicial restraint"—and by August 2009 was siding more often with his Republican Party on closely divided votes than ever before in his senatorial career. McCain reasserted that the War in Afghanistan was winnab... | 8,177 |
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filibuster of a measure that would allow repeal of the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy towards gays. Factors involved in McCain's new direction included Senate staffers leaving, a renewed concern over national debt levels and the scope of federal government, a possible Republican primary challenge... | 8,178 |
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materialized in the 2010 U.S. Senate election in Arizona and drew support from some but not all elements of the Tea Party movement. With Hayworth using the campaign slogan "The Consistent Conservative", McCain said—despite his own past use of the term on a number of occasions—"I never considered myself a ma... | 8,179 |
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Care Act, passed Congress and became law in March 2010, McCain strongly opposed the landmark legislation not only on its merits but also on the way it had been handled in Congress. As a consequence, he warned that congressional Republicans would not work with Democrats on anything else: "There will be no co... | 8,180 |
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McCain beat Hayworth by a 56 to 32 percent margin. McCain proceeded to easily defeat Democratic Tucson city councilman Rodney Glassman in the general election.
In the lame duck session of the 111th Congress, McCain voted for the compromise Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creatio... | 8,181 |
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Fifth Senate term.
While control of the House of Representatives went over to the Republicans in the 112th Congress, the Senate stayed Democratic and McCain continued to be the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. As the Arab Spring took center stage, McCain urged that the embattled Egypt... | 8,182 |
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to do so, and said that the rebel forces were "my heroes". In June, he joined with Senator Kerry in offering a resolution that would have authorized the military intervention, and said: "The administration's disregard for the elected representatives of the American people on this matter has been troubling a... | 8,183 |
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by civil libertarians, some Democrats, and the White House, McCain and Levin agreed to language making it clear that the bill would not pertain to U.S. citizens.
In the 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries, McCain endorsed former 2008 rival Mitt Romney and campaigned for him, but compared the conte... | 8,184 |
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the 21st century". McCain took the lead in opposing the defense spending sequestrations brought on by the Budget Control Act of 2011 and gained attention for defending State Department aide Huma Abedin against charges brought by a few House Republicans that she had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
McCain co... | 8,185 |
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Watergate scandal. As an outgrowth of this strong oppositi, he and a few other senators were successful in blocking the planned nomination of Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton as U.S. Secretary of State; McCain's friend and colleague John Kerry was nominated instead.
Regardi... | 8,186 |
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that two of the people he posed for pictures with had been responsible for the kidnapping of eleven Lebanese Shiite pilgrims the year before, McCain disputed one of the identifications and said he had not met directly with the other. Following the 2013 Ghouta chemical weapons attack, McCain argued again for... | 8,187 |
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Rand Paul and Ted Cruz and Representative Justin Amash were "wacko birds".
During 2013, McCain was a member of a bi-partisan group of senators, the "Gang of Eight", which announced principles for another try at comprehensive immigration reform. The resulting Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immig... | 8,188 |
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later in the year anyway, to the senator's displeasure. These developments and some other negotiations showed that McCain now had improved relations with the Obama administration, including the president himself, as well as with Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and that he had become the leader... | 8,189 |
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in October 2013 he voted in favor of the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014, which resolved them and said, "Republicans have to understand we have lost this battle, as I predicted weeks ago, that we would not be able to win because we were demanding something that was not achievable." Similarly, he was one... | 8,190 |
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following major gains by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in the 2014 Northern Iraq offensive, decried what he saw as a U.S. failure to protect its past gains in Iraq and called on the president's entire national security team to resign. McCain said, "Could all this have been avoided? ... The answer... | 8,191 |
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to Ukrainian military forces, saying the sanctions imposed against Russia were not enough. In 2014, McCain led the opposition to the appointments of Colleen Bell, Noah Mamet, and George Tsunis to the ambassadorships in Hungary, Argentina, and Norway, respectively, arguing they were unqualified appointees be... | 8,192 |
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to it, nonetheless." He added that the CIA's practices following the September 11 attacks had "stained our national honor" while doing "much harm and little practical good" and that "Our enemies act without conscience. We must not." He opposed the Obama administration's December 2014 decision to normalize r... | 8,193 |
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for major weapons systems acquisition back to the individual armed services and their secretaries and away from the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics. As chair, McCain tried to maintain a bipartisan approach and forged a good relationship with ranking member Jack Reed. In ... | 8,194 |
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Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)), saying that Secretary of State Kerry was "delusional" and "giv[ing] away the store" in negotiations with Iran. McCain supported the Saudi Arabian-led military intervention in Yemen against the Shia Houthis and forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, ... | 8,195 |
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he would support the Republican nominee even if it was Donald Trump, but following Mitt Romney's 2016 anti-Trump speech, McCain endorsed the sentiments expressed in that speech, saying he had serious concerns about Trump's "uninformed and indeed dangerous statements on national security issues". Relations b... | 8,196 |
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said a lot of very bad things about a lot of people." Following Trump becoming the presumptive nominee of the party on May 3, McCain said that Republican voters had spoken and he would support Trump.
McCain himself faced a primary challenge from Kelli Ward, a fervent Trump supporter, and then was expected ... | 8,197 |
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possible given their disagreements. However McCain defeated Ward in the primary by a double-digit percentage point margin and gained a similar lead over Kirkpatrick in general election polls, and when the Donald Trump "Access Hollywood" controversy broke, he felt secure enough to on October 8 withdraw his e... | 8,198 |
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Kirkpatrick, securing a sixth term as United States Senator from Arizona.
In November 2016, McCain learned of the existence of a dossier regarding the Trump presidential campaign's links to Russia compiled by Christopher Steele. McCain sent a representative to gather more information, who obtained a copy o... | 8,199 |
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