Who is John McCain? He is a senior US Senator from Arizona and the Republican candidate in the 2008 election for the President of the United States.
John McCain is a third generation Navy man. He is a 1958 graduate of the United States Naval Academy. He flew attack aircrafts as a naval aviator. On a bombing mission is 1967, his plane was shot down. Not only was McCain badly injured, the North Vietnamese captured him. John McCain was a prisoner of war for five and a half years in which he endured torture. He was freed in 1973.
McCain announced that he planned to run for President of the United States of America on the February 28, 2007, episode of Late Night with David Letterman. This is not John McCain’s first try at the presidency. George W. Bush defeated him for the Republican nomination for president in 2000. McCain received enough delegates on March 4, 2008 to confirm him as the presumptive Republican nominee for the presidential race of 2008.
If John McCain wins the election, he would be the oldest US president at the time of inauguration. On January 20, 2009, John Sidney McCain III will be 72-years-old.
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28 Mar, 2008