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King's depression was also fed by the fallout from butting heads with the soft, safe image manufactured for him. The more he protested poverty, denounced the Vietnam War and lamented the unconscious racism of many whites, the more he lost favor and footing in white America. For the first time in almost a decade, in January 1967 King's name was left off the Gallup-poll list of the 10 most admired Americans. Financial support for his organization nearly dried up. Mainstream publications turned on him for diving into foreign policy matters supposedly far beyond his depth. Universities withdrew...
...even a crusader against improper influence like McCain. This is especially true for a former chairman of the powerful Commerce Committee. "The issues before the committee often pit industry against industry," explains Ivan Schlager, who served as the committee's Democratic chief counsel, "so you are always appearing to favor somebody...
...both a vigorous fund raiser - collecting more than $135 million over his career - and the nation's leading G.O.P. campaign-finance reformer. His inner circle includes current and former lobbyists, but he has sponsored bills limiting their influence. He has begged discount private-jet flights from companies seeking his favor but also led an effort to end the discount lending practice. McCain is, in other words, not an easy man to judge...
...high standards are a double-edged sword. Even as McCain railed against the system, he worked it, sometimes creating unseemly appearances of his own. As with many other Senators, some of McCain's biggest corporate donors were invariably the companies that sought his favor - firms like FedEx, AT&T and Qwest Communications. At one point, he even allowed Fred Smith, a friend who ran FedEx, to sponsor a book party for McCain's memoir Worth the Fighting...
...Reformer's Burden For most other Senators, especially those lacking presidential ambitions, such untoward appearances would not raise much of an eyebrow. On any given day, thousands of lobbyists work their connections on Capitol Hill, hoping to obtain letters on their behalf or legislation in their favor. But for McCain, such questions become an issue of integrity. He is the one, after all, who regularly breaks the Senate's code of silence by alleging corruption by his peers. "Elected officials do act in particular ways in order to assist large soft-money donors," McCain wrote in a sworn statement from...