Article: McCain's 'Mooseketeers': The senator's popularity is keeping the White House on edge. Will he try to pull a Bull Moose on Bush?(Senator John McCain)(THE HILL)(National Affairs)(Brief Article)

For the other politicians pushing campaign-finance reform, the trip to East 20th Street in Manhattan a few weeks ago was a great photo op. To John McCain, however, the visit to Teddy Roosevelt's boyhood home was more like a pilgrimage. McCain paused reverently before every display, brushing by the moose head on the wall to examine the bullet-pocked white shirt and folded speech from the day that TR was nearly assassinated in 1912, and his Rough Riders uniform designed by Brooks Brothers. ("That's the way to go to war!" McCain says, laughing.) The Arizona senator knew so many details of Roosevelt's life that the park ranger in charge finally suggested he give the tour ...

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