{"id":1494794,"date":"2022-05-27T13:45:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T17:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1494794"},"modified":"2022-05-27T13:45:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T17:45:22","slug":"biden-reflects-on-late-republican-senator-hard-assed-guys-looked-at-one-another-and-said-i-love-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-reflects-on-late-republican-senator-hard-assed-guys-looked-at-one-another-and-said-i-love-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Reflects On Late Republican Senator: \u2018Hard-Assed Guys, Looked At One Another And Said, \u2018I Love You\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-reflects-on-late-republican-senator-hard-assed-guys-looked-at-one-another-and-said-i-love-you%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1494794&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden reflected on his friendship with late Republican Arizona Sen. and Naval officer John McCain while speaking Friday at the Naval Academy graduation ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen John was on his deathbed\u2026 I went to see him. I was leaving after the visit, and in a voice barely above a whisper, he called me over to his bedside. He said, \u2018Joe, will you do my eulogy?\u2019 I said, \u2018Yes, John,&#8217;\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6x-EsNK-wQc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd literally at the same time, two guys who think they\u2019re hard-assed guys, looked at one another and said, \u2018I love you,&#8217;\u201d Biden added at the conclusion of his speech.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also spoke about McCain\u2019s time at the Naval Academy, his 2018 funeral and their relationship early on.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>John and I \u201cdisagreed politically on things. But being here, I can\u2019t help but think of John, and how the Naval Academy meant so much to him,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe chose these grounds for his final resting place. John, as an American hero, withstood torture, years of being held as a prisoner of war. When he came home, he wanted to continue to serve,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI talked him into running,\u201d Biden said, adding that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/08\/25\/mccain-dies-at-age-81\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">McCain<\/a> \u201calways lived by code.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve chosen the honorable path that few before you have done. You\u2019re going to look to uphold the honor of this institution and a generation of proud patriots who passed this way before you. Patriots like a dear friend of mine, John McCain,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also spoke about the challenges the Naval Academy endured during the COVID-19 pandemic and the importance of being \u201cinclusive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou came together and learned the first and most important lesson of leadership: to always, always care for your people. To respect everyone\u2019s talent. To be inclusive, and make sure the United States\u2019 Navy and the United States Marine Corps draw from the full strength and diversity of this nation. Everybody!\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>Biden then talked about the challenges the world is facing, including rising sea levels, the pandemic and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/23\/top-russian-diplomat-boris-bondarev-ditches-putin-ukraine-war-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Russia\u2019s<\/a> war on Ukraine. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/28\/kamala-harris-naval-academy-climate-change-national-security-solar-panels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(RELATED: \u2018Very Real Threat To Our National Security\u2019: <span class=\"il\">Kamala<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Harris<\/span>\u00a0Fearmongers On Climate Change In Navy\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Academy<\/span> Speech)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what you\u2019re graduating into,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings are changing so rapidly. The next 10 years will be the decisive decade of this century,\u201d Biden added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden reflected on his friendship with late Republican Arizona Sen. and Naval officer John McCain while speaking Friday at the Naval Academy graduation ceremony.\u201cWhen John was on his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":1494826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1494826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}