A Friendship That Ended the War
James Carroll on how John McCain and John Kerry worked together to normalize diplomatic relations with Vietnam.
Kerry on standing at McCain's old cell in the Hanoi Hilton: "'I remember a kind of silence, and I remember distinctly that we were alone. . . . We had other people around us, but they melted into the background at that moment, and we were just standing in this place. I remember being in awe, feeling a sense of awe for what I could feel this guy must have gone through.'" Kerry himself had led the antiwar protest McCain heard about while imprisoned.