Mark McKinnon Remembers How McCain Needed Help To Comb His Hair: ‘I Started Weeping, It Was So Powerful’

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MCKINNON: "Thanks, Jake. First of all, my hats off to senator McCain and the McCain family. There were so many powerful moments it was, you know, such an honor to spend any time around Senator McCain, but one of the first times I was out with him was when his campaign had kind of collapsed and there were a few of us that stuck around as volunteers and I think it was up in New Hampshire. I was doing every role, I was press guy, travel aide, what have you. When I went to go with him, whoever was with him before me gave me a black bag and I didn’t really understand what that was for and I looked in it and I saw that there were some grooming tools, like a hair bush, and I still didn’t really get it until we got to the event and the van pulled up so that we could get out on the side of the van where the crowd couldn’t see us and Senator McCain, you know, this decorated war hero comes over to me and bends over in supplication and I realized at that moment he couldn’t raise his arms above his shoulder to comb his hair because his arms had been broken so many times as a POW, as a prisoner of war. Just to see the humility of that moment of this war hero, he goes to go into the crowd and I turned around and started weeping, it was so powerful."