Dan spoke with CNN’s Brian Stelter about John McCain’s legacy. Here is some of their discussion:
“McCain transcended party identification. He was a lifelong Republican and very fierce loyal Republican in the former definition of that term, but, you know, McCain represented something that I think he was a politician who became a folk hero…as a consequence his going it leaves a void because there’s this sinking feeling within ourselves where is the next John McCain? Where is the John McCain that will walk the halls of the capitol now? And we better hope that we have some John McCains in the future.”
“We shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that there was something genuinely noble about John McCain. I think all you need to know about him is when he was a prisoner of war with the North Vietnamese he had been there a while. When they offered to release him because, in respect of his father who was commanding American forces in the pacific, John McCain wouldn’t go unless they released all of them, as a consequence he spent additional years in the prison camp. now, that alone speaks so well to his character.”
Take a look at what else he said:
.@DanRather on John McCain's legacy: "A person with John McCain's character, matched with his leadership skills, is rare in any walk of life, and is getting to be particularly rare in the upper reaches of our country's elected office structure." pic.twitter.com/8FKSl6vjuf
— Reliable Sources (@ReliableSources) August 26, 2018