John McCain | 1936-2018

As a presidential candidate, John McCain waves to supporters in 2008 on the way into a campaign rally in Defiance, Ohio, accompanied by his daughter Meghan.

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Dec. 16, 2017 4:26 PM PT

John McCain, the Republican senator from Arizona and former presidential candidate, died Aug. 25 at 81.

In December 2017, Sen. John McCain leaves a closed-door session in which Republican senators met on the GOP’s effort to overhaul the tax code.

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Sen. John McCain speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in February 2015.

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John McCain campaigns for president in front of a Dartmouth College fraternity house on Jan. 31, 2000, in Hanover, N.H.

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John McCain in February 2000 with his wife, Cindy, and children, from left: Andy, Jimmy, Jack, Bridget, Meghan, Doug and Sidney.

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Sen. John McCain talks with people on a crowded street during the filming of a CBS Reports Special titled “Honor, Duty and a War Called Vietnam,” in Hanoi, Vietnam, on March 6, 1985.

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In 1967, John McCain lies in a Hanoi hospital. John McCain was captured in 1967 at a lake in Hanoi after his Navy warplane was downed by the Northern Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War.

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A photo taken Oct. 26, 1967, shows John McCain, center, being rescued from Hanoi’s Truc Bach lake by several Hanoi residents after his Navy warplane was downed by the Northern Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War.

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