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Reagan was Governor of California in 1974, when he invited McCain to a prayer breakfast in Sacramento. McCain has never been a particularly reverent guy; but that morning he found himself telling the silent crowd about a discovery he made when he was thrown into solitary confinement in a 6-ft. by 9-ft. hole in the ground. On the wall was etched a testimony, scratched into the stone by a previous occupant: "I believe in God, the Father Almighty," read the jagged writing. The words sustained him, McCain told the crowd, through his 2 1/2-year solitude. When he finished...
...generation that aches for heroes and doubts the moral detour it took during the years John McCain was becoming the icon of Duty, Honor and Country. So compelling is the Story that it has helped bring him here, to a dead heat in New Hampshire with the Texas Governor: the man to whom much has been given against the man from whom much was taken away...
...exchange for being on the program, I got more face time than usual with the Governors, including late-night margaritas and brandy. While I was fascinated by their discussion about taxing sales on the Internet, what I was really looking for was any crack in their pre-emptive, granite-hard support for their colleague, Governor George W. Bush. Lately, he had given off a slight whiff of Dan Quayle, and his first debate was imminent. Senator John McCain was showing surprising strength. And surely there must be some Oval Office envy, given that one of their own had left them...
Massachusetts Governor A. Paul Cellucci followed Mariano in praising Worcester's "fallen heroes...
...process. "Some people take a class to pass the test, but I just read a book, and then answered some questions. It was easy," he said. The test starts locally and ends nationally. Alberto revisited some of the questions he faced and then answered them, "Who is the governor of Massachussetts? Paul Celucci. Where is the White House? 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Who was Martin Luther King? A civil rights leader. Who freed the slaves? Abraham Lincoln. Easy questions like that." The most difficult part of the process was dealing with immigration workers. "Those are bad people," he said. "They...