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The title of this made me think it would be more negative, but I think this was pretty fairly written for McCain - it ends up just being a pretty decent account of his transition from the Navy to congress:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/us.../29mccain.html

Senate's Power and Allure Drew McCain From Military

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

WASHINGTON - At a meeting in his Pentagon office in early 1981, Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman told Captain John S. McCain III that he was about to attain his life ambition: selection for admiral.

But Mr. McCain, the son and grandson of revered Navy admirals, was having second thoughts about following his family?s vocation. He had spent the previous four years as the Navy?s liaison to the Senate, sampling life in the world?s most exclusive club as he escorted its members on trips around the globe - sitting with the Sultan of Oman on the floor of his desert tent, or smuggling a senator?s private supply of Scotch through Saudi Arabian customs.

He had found a sense of purpose in an apprenticeship to some of the Senate?s fiercest cold warriors. And in Senator John G. Tower, a hawkish Texas Republican, he had found a new mentor, beginning a relationship that many compared to the bond between a father and son.

With Mr. Tower?s encouragement, Mr. McCain declined the prospect of his first admiral?s star to make a run for Congress, saying that he could "do more good there," Mr. Lehman recalled. But he knew duty to country was only part of the reason.

"He just loved it up there," Mr. Lehman recalled. "Like very few military people, John heard the music up there, and he really wanted to do it...