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A Strong Endorsement for McCain From a Former President

The New York Times (register)

HOUSTON — When former President George Bush stood beside Senator John McCain here on Monday and gave him a Presidents’ Day endorsement, it was just the latest chapter in the sometimes-tangled saga of the Bush and the McCain dynasties.

In World War II, Mr. Bush was serving under Mr. McCain’s grandfather, Adm. John S. McCain, in the Pacific when he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for finishing a bombing run even after his airplane was hit; he bailed out at sea only after he had finished. Years later, Mr. Bush commissioned the guided missile destroyer John S. McCain, named for Mr. McCain’s grandfather and father, another admiral in the Navy.

If Mr. McCain has sometimes seemed to have a complicated relationship with Mr. Bush’s son President George W. Bush, he has always spoken warmly of the first President Bush — calling him last summer “maybe the nicest man that ever sat in the Oval Office.”

Posted by Editor at February 19, 2008 06:26 AM

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