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...honor is like a golden thread woven through his remarkable life of service. In the cover story of our special Republican Convention issue, McCain's abiding concern with honor is the prism through which James Carney and Michael Grunwald look at the Republican presidential nominee. Carney, our Washington bureau chief, has covered both of McCain's presidential campaigns. He first encountered McCain during the Arizona Senator's antitobacco crusade of 1997. "He basically allowed me into every meeting and strategy session he had on tobacco," he recalls. "His rule: I could stay in any meeting until someone else--another Senator...
...thing for the Republican Party may actually be losing in November. Michael Scherer, who has been on the McCain bus and plane for 17 months now, gets inside McCain's tight-knit campaign team, led by two unique personalities: the strategist Steve Schmidt and McCain's alter ego and chief speechwriter, Mark Salter. And Mark Halperin tracked McCain's path to nomination for The Page...
...great English photographer Platon, who usually chats with his subjects about pop music. Platon says McCain was "funny and cheeky" and said he was an Abba fan. As always, our coverage was orchestrated by assistant managing editor Michael Duffy, whose vast experience--as White House correspondent, Washington bureau chief and presidential historian--enables us to give you unmatched reporting and insight on this extraordinary campaign...
...clear sense that Cindy's chief influence is not with his campaign but with their kids. During an hour-long chat, the cell phone that is her lifeline never leaves her side. She learned to check homework, approve clothing choices and practically administer Band-Aids by cell phone during the 2000 campaign. She has three BlackBerrys and is the family techie, programming the computers and solving problems. Bridget is now 17; Cindy is on the phone with her constantly, as well as with eldest daughter Meghan and sons Jimmy, a Marine who returned from deployment in Iraq in February...
...just one of those fateful twists that John McCain now finds himself in the same position his father was in, she notes, when Admiral John S. McCain Jr. was commander in chief of U.S. forces in the Pacific, ordering bombing runs on Hanoi as his son was being held prisoner there. "Now, my husband is not calling the shots in this war, but he's very involved, obviously, in what the strategy is and shaping American policy toward it. With that said, at the same time, his son is in Iraq. So yes, it's very personal...