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- "Fighting John" was a side of McCain that commanded the respect of his fellow soldiers, and later defined his career as a politician.
- During his time as a prisoner of war, the North Vietnamese offered McCain an early release because his father was a Commander of the Pacific fleet.
- McCain refused early release, and instead opted to endure torture in order to send a message to his captors.
- McCain's temper was forged during his time as a POW and earned him the respect of his peers during his time in politics.
In winter 2007, John McCain's presidential bid was bleeding for money. The campaign had fired senior staff and the candidate had only 54% of support from Republicans in his home state of Arizona ahead of the primaries. But it was a speech Vladimir Putin gave at the Munich Security Conference — where the Russian president lambasted the United States for cultivating a world of "instability and danger" — that set the senator's teeth on edge.
"I remember John McCain becoming furiously angry with this speech and wanting to do an immediate press conference to respond to it," McCain's former foreign policy advisor Niall Ferguson, a British historian, told Observer. "That's when I saw the impulse McCain, 'Fighting John,' who had to be talked out of this vehement rejoinder of Putin."
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