Meghan McCain Shares Emotional Tribute to Late Father John McCain
In July 2017, McCain revealed that he had been diagnosed with glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer that watchers of American politics know well—the same disease killed Senator Ted Kennedy and Beau Biden, the oldest son of former vice president Joe Biden. Meghan McCain told Glamour she joined her father—publicly nicknamed "The Maverick"—at doctor visits, waking up at 5 a.m. for his radiation appointments and had no intention of taking the View gig when it came her way. It was her dad who insisted she go for it, saying she'd be “insane to pass it up."
Dimitrios Kambouris
In April 2018, McCain was back in the hospital, and Meghan said doctors warned her it was time to initiate any conversations she needed to have with her father, though she hesitated. "We’ve done that," she told the senator's team. "He knows I love him more than anything, and I know he loves me more than anything. There’s nothing else. What's next?"
Talking to Glamour, Megan also was forthcoming about how she, her father's only daughter, received no special treatment growing up; the Maverick had been as strict with her as he was with her brothers. Why hadn’t she been given status—a daughter’s reprieve? But his relentlessness, she knows, made her resilient. “I realize now he did it so I could survive this.”
