REMARKS BY SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN (R-AZ) IN THE 2005 ALISTAIR COOKE MEMORIAL LECTURE FOR THE BBC

REMARKS BY SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN (R-AZ) IN THE 2005 ALISTAIR COOKE MEMORIAL LECTURE FOR THE BBC


REMARKS BY SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN (R-AZ) IN THE 2005 ALISTAIR COOKE MEMORIAL LECTURE FOR THE BBC
SUBJECT: "AN AMERICAN PATRIOT TODAY" INTRODUCTION: NICK CLARKE, BBC

THE ENGLISH SPEAKING UNION, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM MONDAY, JULY 4, 2005



MR. CLARKE: It was clarity of language and thought that helped make Alistair Cooke such a powerful promoter of transatlantic understanding. And I have no doubt at all that he would have been honored by the choice of this evening's lecturer, a man whom he once described as "a hero with a gift for believable indignation."

Republican Senator John McCain is one of the most intriguing politicians in the United States. He ran for president in 2000 but was undone by a series of strong personal attacks. In 2004 the Democrats were wooing him as a possible running mate for John Kerry. Despite a deep-seeded antipathy to partisanship in politics, the senator refused to change sides, supported George Bush and is now being talked about as a serious Republican contender in three years' time. ...

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