McCain: Stand Down On Vietnam
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By Bob Schieffer. By Mark Knoller. By Dotty Lynch. (CBS/AP) Sen. John McCain has called on both political parties to declare a cease-fire in the increasingly bitter partisan quarrel over John Kerry&#39;s Vietnam war record.
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Both presidential candidates would like the Vietnam issue to go away, but the war in Iraq is a constant reminder of its Southeast Asian predecessor.
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Sen. John McCain's top political strategists stepped down Tuesday from their posts with the Arizona Republican's presidential campaign that has come under fire for poor management and lackluster fundraising.
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Sen. John McCain, his presidential campaign weighed down by Iraq, on Monday rejected a proposal from two fellow Republicans demanding a new war strategy that would limit the role of U.S. troops.
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Republican John McCain plans to run a general election campaign as steadfast protector of the United States in the face of terrorism as well as a crusader against big government. The Democrats, he says, offer neither.
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US Republican Senator John McCain,a key moderate who has often criticized the policies of old political foe President George W. Bush, on Monday offered a stout defense of Bush&#39;s Iraq policy and his leadership.
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EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Saturday night urged President Bush to "stand up and stop" what he called personal attacks on him over his combat record in Vietnam...
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John Kerry made the comments after weeks of standing by as a group of Vietnam veterans criticized his wartime record.
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SARASOTA, Fla., Jan. 26 -- Sen. John McCain of Arizona accused former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney of having once supported a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, sparking an angry demand for an apology from Romney, who called the statement "dishonest."
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NEW YORK - Republicans sharpened their attacks on John Kerry ahead of the opening of their national convention Monday, with Sen. John McCain suggesting it was fair game to criticize the Democratic candidate's anti-war protests three decades ago...
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Senator John McCain, a  Republican contender for the White House in 2008, chastised  Europe on Saturday for failing to supply the troops and money  to win in Afghanistan and said NATO's future was at stake.
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John McCain argued Thursday that the United States would be safer with him as president than if his leading Republican rivals were commander in chief as he seized on newfound opportunities to revive his weakened candidacy.
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Republican John McCain argued on Thursday that presidential rivals Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney lack the foreign policy experience to make the inevitable tough decisions of a wartime commander in chief.
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Republican Sen. John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, called an ad criticizing John Kerry's military service "dishonest and dishonorable" and urged the White House on Thursday to condemn it as well.
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Thursday that Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton isn't tough enough to be president.
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Republican US Senator John McCain said Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry&#39;s anti-war activities after he returned from Vietnam are an appropriate subject for political debate.
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Monday dismissed polls that show him slipping into single digits, arguing that his campaign is going through the typical ups and downs and will be fine this fall.