Washington • John McCain lived most of his life in the public eye, surviving war, torture, scandal, political stardom and failure, the enmity of some colleagues and the election of President Donald Trump.
Even brain cancer didn’t seem to scare McCain so much as it sobered and saddened him.
“The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it,” McCain wrote in his memoir, referencing a line from his favorite book, the Ernest Hemingway war novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” “I hate to leave.”
McCain, became a public figure at age 31 when his bed-bound image was broadcast from North Vietnam in 1967.