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Jul 20, 2017 · When McCain met glamorous, 25-year-old heiress Cindy Lou Hensley at a cocktail party in Hawaii in 1979 he “by all accounts, fell instantly in love,” The Washington Post reported in 2008. He...
Apr 26, 2021 · Within years of their 1980 wedding, John, then a liaison to the Senate, was a politician himself. He and Cindy were married for 38 years and, at the time of his death, John was one of the...
Jul 20, 2017 · When McCain met glamorous, 25-year-old heiress Cindy Lou Hensley at a cocktail party in Hawaii in 1979 he “by all accounts, fell instantly in love,” The Washington Post reported in 2008. He...
Apr 27, 2021 · In her memoir, the late senator's wife details a decision on emergency surgery in John McCain's final days, reviews their 38 years of marriage — and offers her thoughts on Donald Trump. In 'Stronger,' Cindy McCain Reflects On Life, And The Last Days, With John McCain | Boise State Public Radio
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John and Cindy McCain met during a reception in Hawaii. John McCain was a liaison with the Navy, escorting U.S. senators. He spotted his future wife, Cindy Lou Hensley, from across the room. At her husband’s memorial in Phoenix on Wednesday, former Vice President Joe Bidensaid that it was his wife, Jill, who urged McCain to approach the woman he ke...
Cindy McCain made a high-profile debut as an activist as part of the NOH8 campaign, started to protest California’s Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in the state. That proposition passed in 2008, the same year John McCain lost his second presidential bid running as a member of a party that staunchly opposed marriage rights for same-sex...
McCain has told the story several times: She was in Calcutta buying fabric for her daughter, who was adopted as an infant from one of Mother Teresa’s orphanages in Bangladesh. As she bartered with the merchant, “I heard this clattering from underneath the floorboards of this building that I was in,” McCain said, recounting the incident in a 2014 Mc...
In March 2013, in an op-ed printed in The Republic, she even singled out the chairman of the state House Judiciary Committee for criticism by name. She said Rep. Eddie Farnsworth, R-Gilbert, “effectively killed a bill that was a small step, but a step in the right direction of protecting our children from human trafficking.” At the end of the op-ed...
McCain’s advocacy became part of a growing drive to alter the conversation around prostitution. What often was considered a nuisance crime by municipal police departments became a problem worthy of attention at the state and federal levels.The women were not criminals exchanging sex for money but victims who needed rescuing, the narrative went. “Th...
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Hensley met John McCain in April 1979 at a military reception in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was the U.S. Navy liaison officer to the United States Senate, and was accompanying a group of senators heading for China. She was in Hawaii on a family vacation with her parents.
Apr 2, 2014 · She met John McCain in 1979 while she was on vacation with her parents in Hawaii. He was still married, but separated, from his first wife. John and Cindy McCain were married May 17, 1980 in...
