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Service interruption.(Editor's Note)(national service)
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Washington Monthly
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May 1, 2008
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Journalists tend to fall for Senator John McCain--and go easy on him in their coverage--for all the reasons you've heard of. The hours of unmediated access he gives reporters. The knowing winks he flashes them in the midst of a public pander. The frisson they feel in the presence of someone who showed such astonishing physical courage in war. And of course his record of bucking the GOP on everything from tax cuts to the religious right--a record of independence he has been squandering in the current presidential race.
What made me a confirmed McCain fan was an article he wrote for this magazine seven years ago. Entitled "Putting the 'National' in National Service," it was ...
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