by Jim Heath | Aug 27, 2018 | Headlines, McCain
Sen. John McCain’s funeral in Washington, D.C. this weekend will include pallbearers and speakers who represent the pre-Donald Trump era. McCain was lauded throughout his life for maintaining friendships and striking deals across the aisle, and the ceremonies...
by Jim Heath | Aug 27, 2018 | McCain
Sen. John McCain will now greet the millions of visitors who pour into D.C.’s National Portrait Gallery. The gallery today hung a portrait of McCain shot by then-New Yorker photographer Steve Pyke in 2005 on a wall on the first floor, just inside the G Street...
by Jim Heath | Aug 27, 2018 | Headlines, McCain
Former McCain campaign manager Rick Davis read aloud Sen. McCain’s final statement to the American people at a press conference in Phoenix. McCain gives warning, but also optimism, for the future of the country: A Note From Sen. John McCain to the American...
by Jim Heath | Aug 27, 2018 | Headlines, History, Trump
Even after Sen. John McCain’s death, President Trump has made no secret of his disdain for the American hero. Hours after McCain succumbed to cancer on Saturday, Trump nixed a White House statement that called the senator a “hero,” instead offering a single, anodyne...
by Jim Heath | Aug 26, 2018 | Headlines, History
It was Election Eve 2002. I was doing a noon live shot at a Republican rally in Yuma. Being small town TV, the producer asked if I could do weather that day. I had never done a weather cast before and said sure. “Maybe John McCain would join me.” Well,...
