The Real John McCain

[Karen]

Love often has nothing to do with money or power, and as beauty is simply in the eye of the beholder, you cannot say for sure who someone will find beautiful, who they'd find plain, or ugly.

I think we don't know the whole story of the break-up of John McCain's marriage to Carol, certainly not from one article. I wouldn't base my vote on any one article or source.

If the story has you curious, by all means, do more research.

[Edwina's Secretary]

It was talked about quite a bit here in Southern California. There was some difficulty getting Nancy Reagan to endorse McCain and when she did it was a very tepid endorsement.

Seems McCain's first wife worked for Nancy and is a friend of Nancy. Nancy has never forgiven McCain for the manner in which he treated his first wife.

[Catty1]

From Wikipedia on "Carol McCain"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_McCain

Early life and first marriage

Carol Shepp grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[3] She first knew John McCain while he was attending the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis from 1954 to 1958.[4] She then married one of his classmates,[4][5] Alasdair Swanson, in 1958.[6] She and her husband had two children, Douglas (born 1959) and Andrew (born 1962),[7][8] and lived in Pensacola, Florida.[6] The couple subsequently divorced in June 1964, after she sued him for infidelity.[6] Five feet eight inches in height,[9] Shepp was a successful swimwear model[1] in Philadelphia.[3]

Sued him for infidelity? And then picked another winner in THAT department....

She met McCain again the same year she divorced Alasdair (1964), and married McCain just over a year later in July 2005.

John McCain pushed to end the marriage;[17] Carol McCain was described by friends as being in shock from the developments.[17][6] The McCains stopped cohabiting in January 1980;[6] John McCain filed for a divorce in February 1980,[6] which Carol McCain accepted at that time.[17] When asked by a friend what had gone wrong, she said, "It's just one of those things."[17] The uncontested divorce became official in Fort Walton Beach, Florida on April 2, 1980.[28][6]

John McCain would later say, "My marriage's collapse was attributable to my own selfishness and immaturity more than it was to Vietnam, and I cannot escape blame by pointing a finger at the war. The blame was entirely mine."[24] Carol McCain would later say: "The breakup of our marriage was not caused by my accident or Vietnam or any of those things. I don't know that it might not have happened if John had never been gone. I attribute it more to John turning 40 and wanting to be 25 again than I do to anything else."[24] John McCain's biographer, Robert Timberg believes that "Vietnam did play a part, perhaps not the major part, but more than a walk-on."[29] According to Carol, her husband's five-year captivity in Vietnam had left him wanting to "make up for lost time,"[1] and John put it this way: "I had changed, she had changed....People who have been apart that much change."[29] Ross Perot would later say, " After he came home, he walked with a limp, she [Carol McCain] walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona [Cindy McCain, his current wife] and the rest is history." [19] Carol’s three children were initially upset with John McCain about the divorce, but later reconciled.[17]

John McCain gave Carol a settlement that included alimony, child support, houses in Virginia and Florida, and lifelong financial support for her ongoing medical treatments resulting from the 1969 automobile accident.[1] John McCain and Hensley were married on May 17, 1980.[24] Carol McCain was sued by Roberta McCain, John's mother, in 1980 for return of personal property; the suit was settled out of court in 1981.[30]

[lizbud]

I think we don't know the whole story of the break-up of John McCain's marriage to Carol, certainly not from one article. I wouldn't base my vote on any one article or source.

If the story has you curious, by all means, do more research.

I had no knowledge of any of McCain's background & did do some googling
to bring up lots of different articles on his earlier marrage after hearing
someone else bring it up in conversation. Seems he lost his friendship
with the Reagans over the way he treated Carol (first wife).

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...926,full.story