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...think it was the weekend after the campaign kind of fell apart, when John Weaver left and Terry [Nelson] left. Emotions were raw. He was obviously not happy with the way things had gone. He went up to New Hampshire to keep it moving, to give a speech. It was the famous flight where he and Jimmy [McCain, his youngest son] and I were on Southwest Airlines, carrying our own bags. Some cable [channel] got it. Jimmy was three weeks out from shipping out overseas. We get through the speech, and you have pretty much the senior class...
Absolutely. That's why I talk about the double-standard in coverage. In the beginning, McCain did not really come out swinging against Obama. Obama, from the North Carolina primary until yesterday, never gave a speech in this country in which it wasn't a full on assault on McCain's brand. We had spots making fun of McCain on computers, for owning seven houses, saying he had turned his back on Hispanics, saying that he opposed stem cell research, mischaracterizing his position on Social Security, on Medicare. Nobody got after him. There wasn't that collective gasp from...
...push forward] Civil Rights, something that gets America past the old racial baggage we have lugged around for so many years. They feel like this would be an historic achievement for the country. And I understand that appeal. I think McCain probably, as you can tell from his speech last night, felt part of that a little himself. And I think that required the press then to start rationalizing McCain into something he wasn't. He's an honest, honorable guy, who pressed and fought his way through the world's worst political environment. And played by rules that nobody...
What were McCain's instructions to you last night about what to put in that speech...
...than some of his subordinates. A close friend of President Calderón's, he had taken the post in January and survived calls for his resignation over accusations he had given government contracts to his family's company while serving as Undersecretary of Energy. In a nationally broadcast speech, Calderón offered condolences to Mouriño's children: "His death is a great weight on me. But at the same time, it is a powerful motivation to go on fighting without rest, now more than ever, for the ideals we shared." Calderón did not speculate...