Few towering political figures can say their foundation was built on mediocrity and insubordination — twin distinctions of John McCain’s time at the Naval Academy. His North Vietnamese captors had offered relief if he denounced the United States, saying his peers would never know, McCain told the crowd. But he would know, McCain said, and that was enough. “I’ve made more mistakes than most anybody you will ever know,” McCain said in the interview, conducted for the 2017 Naval History Conference. “But one thing has guided me, is what I learned the first day I walked through the main gate at the Naval Academy.

Source: Washington Post August 26, 2018 18:02 UTC