https://youtu.be/H4hQ3k7wPOQ?t=219
At roughly 3:40, Cindy reveals what she describes as a little known fact:
While on vacation with her parents in Hawaii during Spring Break, they were invited to a "glorious reception" on behalf of a Senate delegation on its way to China. During the event, Jill and Joe Biden came over to her and insisted that Cindy be introduced to NoName.
Cindy is wearing a cast on her right wrist and almost cries while sharing this story.
Joe Biden comes on stage and feels up Cindy for a bit and says some things to her. Joe Biden comes up on stage, confirms the story and takes credit for introducing NoName to Cindy while he was married.
Trying to map out the exact timeline of things. You have to think white hats want us to analyze this so help a fren out here! If Cindy was born in 1954, and we do McCain a favor and assume she was between 18 and 22 years old, that puts the timeline of the event between 1972 and 1976.
~1972-~1976: Cindy is introduced to married NoName while on Spring Break with her parents
1980: NoName and his first wife are divorced.
1982: McCain elected to House.
1986: McCain elected to Senate.
Credit to my original source!
Dates may be off. I found this archived article from 2000.
"P.O.W. to Power Broker, A Chapter Most Telling"
Published: February 27, 2000
Here is an excerpt:
In his tiny cubicle in the Russell Senate Office Building, in the lowest foothills of political power, a frustrated Navy officer wrestled with friends over what to do with his life.
It was 1979, and it was becoming clear that he would never make admiral like his father and grandfather. He had always dreamed of doing something great, of imprinting his name on the history books, but at age 42 he found himself with a stuttering military career and no base from which to go into politics.
On top of that, his personal life was a mess: Although he was still living with his wife, he was aggressively courting a 25-year-old woman who was as beautiful as she was rich.
That troubled period was perhaps the crucial turning point in John McCain's life, and the decisions that he made then started him on the course that he hopes will take him to the White House in January. In just a few years from those times of soul-searching in his office as Navy liaison to the Senate, Mr. McCain would have a new wife, a new home state and a bright new political star as president of the class of newly elected Republican members of the House of Representatives.
For a candidate running on character and biography, it is also an awkward time to remember: Mr. McCain abandoned his wife, who had reared their three children while he was in Vietnamese prisons, and he then began his political career with the resources of his new wife's family.
The story began when Vietnam released Mr. McCain and other prisoners of war in March 1973. He stepped off a military transport plane on crutches, an instant war hero, and quickly had a painful shock.
His wife, Carol, a tall, slim woman who had once been a model, had nearly died in a car wreck in 1969. H. Ross Perot, the businessman and advocate of prisoners of war, had paid for her medical care, but the injuries left her four inches shorter and on crutches, and she had gained a good deal of weight.
And I found this from Wikipedia:
In April 1979, McCain met Cindy Lou Hensley, a teacher from Phoenix, Arizona, whose father had founded a large beer distributorship.
They began dating, and he urged his wife, Carol, to grant him a divorce, which she did in February 1980; the uncontested divorce took effect in April 1980.
The settlement included two houses, and financial support for her ongoing medical treatments due to her 1969 car accident; they remained on good terms.
McCain and Hensley were married on May 17, 1980, with Senators William Cohen and Gary Hart attending as groomsmen.
McCain's children did not attend, and several years passed before they reconciled.
John and Cindy McCain entered into a prenuptial agreement that kept most of her family's assets under her name; they kept their finances apart, and filed separate income tax returns.
Ok
Thanks fren. And look at good guy Perot in the picture.
Yes and what ever happened to Gary Hart?