Word: mccains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week, in little towns like Exeter, North Hampton and Pembroke, you found even Democrats applauding McCain's goofy wit, sobering war stories and passionate homilies on money as the root of all evil in Washington. And you found people who don't even agree with his conservative positions on issues like abortion or gun control festooned with McCain buttons...
...Look at the way he took the microphone and was walking around the stage like that. He enjoyed the hell out of this audience, and he was speaking with us, not to us," said Democrat Jack Hayes, 69, after McCain spoke at a jam-packed Phillips Exeter Academy on Wednesday night. "I mean, he gives you himself! And I love the way he's taking on his own party on campaign finance. What a gutsy call that...
Cindy! I'm gonna show Jay the iguana!" It's not yet 8 a.m. on Monday morning, and John McCain is marching through the living room of his house in Phoenix, Ariz., headed for the back bedrooms, leading a reporter who is asking about the New Hampshire primary on a tour of his children's pet collection. Before his wife Cindy can holler back--"Just don't show him the bedroom! It's a mess!"--McCain has swept past the wide-open door to their bedroom, where clothes are strewn across the floor and bed, into the lair of McCain...
...room to room, pointing to his collection of Hopi kachina dolls or the autographed boxing gloves from Evander Holyfield. Every surface in the living areas of the house, horizontal and vertical, is covered with something--photographs or plaques; framed programs from the 1992 christening of the U.S.S. John S. McCain, a guided-missile destroyer named after both his father and grandfather; a model train designed after the full-size one McCain used to win his first Senate victory, complete with a tiny version of him with a shock of white hair at the back of the caboose. And there...
...McCain is more interested in showing off the pets--the iguana, the hamster and Leo the snake--as well as the house itself with its vast deck, pool and hot tub off the master bedroom, as if to say that life has been good to him after all. The four kids have already been packed off to school. And now Cindy, in this Phoenix home where she grew up, is in charge. She's more commanding here than in Washington, where even after 19 years in the role of a politician's wife, she still seems tentative. She says...