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I have a new book out! The Art and Life of Charles M. Schulz in 100 Objects

I have a new book out! The Art and Life of Charles M. Schulz in 100 Objects

Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects It’s hard to believe, but I had a book come out on November 1st! You can get it anywhere good books are sold, but if you buy it from the Charles M. Schulz Museum, it will be signed by none other than Jean Schulz! Working with Jeannie on the book was a very special experience. I get to work with her quite a bit developing…

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"It's been quite a ride," McCain wrote in his memoir.

Republican Sen. John McCain, 81, has died after a long battle with brain cancer.

The Arizona senator was diagnosed with an aggressive form of glioblastoma and began treatment for the disease in July 2017.

McCain appeared to be undeterred for several months after his diagnosis was made public.

He was seen back at work on Capitol Hill last fall and weighed in on major legislative policies, including the annual defense authorization bill and efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

"I don't mean to be repetitious, but to my Democrat friends and some of my Republican friends: I'm coming back," McCain said during a Facebook Live event in August last year.

McCain made headlines upon his return — including when he dramatically voted no on the Republican version of a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

His career as a public servant spanned decades of honorable service, and despite some challenges along the way, McCain established himself as a key figurehead of the Republican Party. Few lawmakers on Capitol Hill will match the legacy he leaves behind.

Here's a look back at John McCain's incredible life:

McCain graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1958 and served as a pilot.

Early in his career in naval aviation, McCain's flying ability and judgment were questioned after he crashed three planes. His commanders were said to have sarcastically called him "Ace McCain" because of his record.

"John was what you called a push-the-envelope guy," Sam Hawkins, who flew in McCain's squadron in the 1960s, told the Los Angeles Times. "There are some naval aviators who are on the cautious side. They don't get out on the edges, but the edges are where you get the maximum out of yourself and out of your plane. That's where John operated."

On October 26, 1967, during the Vietnam War, McCain was flying over Hanoi when a surface-to-air missile hit his plane's wing, forcing him to eject.

"Some North Vietnamese swam out and pulled me to the side of the lake and immediately started stripping me, which is their standard procedure," McCain wrote in USA Today.

"Of course, this being in the center of town, a huge crowd of people gathered, and they were all hollering and screaming and cursing and spitting and kicking at me."

McCain broke both of his arms and his right knee. He had lost consciousness until he hit the water after ejecting from the plane.

McCain was held as a prisoner of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) for five and a half years. He was subjected to torture and solitary confinement in a Vietnamese prison nicknamed the "Hanoi Hilton."

Upon learning that McCain's father was an admiral in the Navy, who would eventually command all US forces in the Pacific, NVA forces provided medical care to McCain. Doctors performed surgery on his leg, according to McCain, but made incorrect incisions on one side and cut all the ligaments.

McCain would spend the rest of his life walking with a noticeable limp.

McCain was released on March 14, 1973.

The North Vietnamese Army had previously offered McCain his freedom, but he refused, thinking that it would bring shame and demoralize his fellow POWs.

Carol, McCain's first wife, raised three children while he was gone, and was reportedly recovering from a devastating car crash that left her impaired for months.

McCain made several trips back to Vietnam to bridge relations with the US.

McCain would eventually retire from the Navy in 1981 as a captain. His awards include a Silver Star and a Distinguished Flying Cross.

"I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty ... break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more," McCain said to the Naval Academy's graduating class in 1993. "All these things and more, I have seen. And so will you. My time is slipping by. Yours is fast approaching. You will know where your duty lies. You will know."

Source: Stars and Stripes

Some areas of the prison where McCain was held were converted into a museum, dedicated to the historic link between his service and the Vietnam War.

Source: Reuters

During a visit to the infamous prison, McCain said he could not forgive the jailers who mistreated and killed fellow POWs.

Source: Reuters

McCain married Cindy Hensley in 1980 and had a daughter, two sons, and adopted another daughter from Bangladesh.

Source: Los Angeles Times

After serving as a Navy liaison in the Senate, McCain took the leap into politics and was elected to serve Arizona's 1st Congressional District from 1982 to 1984.

McCain's political opponents criticized him early on, pointing to what they called his lack of connection to Arizona. He eventually hit back during a debate:

"Listen, pal. I spent 22 years in the Navy. My grandfather was in the Navy. We in the military service tend to move a lot. We have to live in all parts of the country, all parts of the world. I wish I could have had the luxury, like you, of growing up and living and spending my entire life in a nice place like the first district of Arizona, but I was doing other things. As a matter of fact, when I think about it now, the place I lived longest in my life was Hanoi."

"Looking back, I think the race was effectively over right then," McCain recalled in his autobiography. "But I didn't know that then. I was just mad and had taken a swing."

Source: New York Times, AZ Central

After his two terms in the House, McCain sought Arizona's Senate seat and won a landslide victory in 1986.

As a senator, McCain was a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He would eventually become the chairman of the committee, weighing in on a variety of matters involving the US military, such as funding and mission scope.

Source: AZ Central

Sen. McCain hit a bump in the road in 1989.

McCain was one of the "Keating Five" — five senators accused of trying to persuade federal regulators to ease up on Charles Keating, a major campaign donor who became financially compromised during the 1980s savings-and-loan crisis.

McCain, who emerged relatively unscathed after the Senate Ethics Committee's investigation, was found to have exercised "poor judgment." While the other four senators retired in the 1990s, McCain soldiered on.

"Despite my recovery, the Keating Five experience was not one that I have walked away from as easily as I have other bad times," McCain said in his memoir.

"Twelve years after its conclusion, I still wince thinking about it and find that if I do not repress the memory, its recollection still provokes a vague but real feeling that I had lost something very important, something that was sacrificed in the pursuit of gratifying ambitions, my own and others."

Following the scandal, McCain soon earned the moniker of "Maverick," a term his colleagues from both sides of the political aisle gave him as he advocated for campaign finance reform and sought to end government waste.

In the 1990s, McCain took on special-interest groups like the tobacco industry, and pushed for raising cigarette taxes to pay for anti-smoking campaigns. But McCain's anti-tobacco bill ultimately fell short after the tobacco industry launched a $40 million PR effort of its own.

"The losers are the children of America," McCain said.

Regardless of the outcome for some of his ambitious reforms, McCain's was easily reelected in 1992 and 1998.

Source: AZ Central

McCain would soon became a household name in politics. He set his sights higher and announced in 1999 that he would run for president in the 2000 election.

After losing several states in the primaries to then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush, McCain withdrew from the race and endorsed Bush.

One of McCain's crowning achievements in the Senate was the McCain-Feingold Act in 2002.

McCain, along with Democratic Sen. Russell Feingold of Winsonsin, helped enact the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, one of the first major amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act.

The legislation was designed to regulate financing for political organizations and curb the influx of soft money.

Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, McCain supported the US-led coalition war in Afghanistan.

McCain explained his support for Operation Enduring Freedom in a Wall Street Journal opinion column published in October 2001.

"There is no avoiding the war we are in today, any more than we could have avoided world war after our fleet was bombed at Pearl Harbor," McCain wrote. "America is under attack by a depraved, malevolent force that opposes our every interest and hates every value we hold dear."

"War is a miserable business. Let's get on with it."

McCain also supported the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and claimed Saddam Hussein was "turning Iraq into a weapons assembly line for al-Qaida's network."

Although McCain continued to voice his support for US military options in Iraq, McCain later admitted it was a mistake.

"The principal reason for invading Iraq, that Saddam had [weapons of mass destruction], was wrong," McCain wrote in his memoir.

"The war, with its cost in lives and treasure and security, can't be judged as anything other than a mistake, a very serious one, and I have to accept my share of the blame for it."

Source: USA Today

McCain announced his second presidential bid for the 2008 election.

McCain gracefully spars with then-Sen. Barack Obama.

McCain secured the Republican nomination in the primaries and faced off against then-Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois in the general election.

As McCain trailed behind polls, Obama's critics sought to discredit him by promoting false theories about his heritage and religion. During a campaign rally in 2008, one of McCain's supporters explained why she said she did not trust Obama.

"I have read about him, and he's not, he's not — he's an Arab," the woman said, incorrectly.

McCain quickly grabbed the microphone, shook his head and set the record straight.

"No ma'am," McCain said, calling Obama "a decent family man, citizen, that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues, and that's what this campaign is all about."

McCain selects Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate.

McCain later said he regretted the decision and wished he selected Joe Lieberman, the former Democratic senator from Connecticut, and his longtime friend, as his running mate.

"It was sound advice that I could reason for myself," McCain said in his memoir. "But my gut told me to ignore it and I wish I had."

McCain concedes to Obama in November 2008: "This is an historic election, and I recognize the special significance it has for African-Americans and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight."

On November 5, 2008, McCain formally conceded the election and congratulated President-elect Obama on his victory.

"A little while ago, I had the honor of calling Senator Barack Obama to congratulate him," McCain said. "To congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country that we both love."

"This is an historic election, and I recognize the special significance it has for African-Americans and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight," McCain added.

"I've always believed that America offers opportunities to all who have the industry and will to seize it. Senator Obama believes that, too."

As the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, McCain provided legislative oversight of the military and became a leading voice on veterans issues.

But as the chairman of the legislative body of military affairs, McCain also had to account for the military's failures.

For the most part, McCain maintained friendly ties with other lawmakers, regardless of their political party.

In July 2017, McCain announced he was diagnosed with brain cancer.

McCain received broad support for his recovery from both sides of the political aisle.

"I greatly appreciate the outpouring of support - unfortunately for my sparring partners in Congress, I'll be back soon, so stand-by!" McCain said on Twitter.

McCain feuded with President Donald Trump.

Prior to making a move to politics, real-estate tycoon Donald Trump threw jabs at McCain by throwing cold water on his military service.

Trump said the former naval aviator "was captured," and expressed doubt on whether he should be hailed as a hero.

"He's not a war hero," Trump said at a leadership summit in 2015. "He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured."

"I think John McCain's done very little for the veterans," Trump later said. "I'm very disappointed in John McCain."

Trump would continue to echo the remarks throughout his presidency.

McCain remained critical of Trump's presidency and did not shy from letting his feelings known. On Trump's controversial performance at his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in July, McCain described it as "one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory."

McCain also denounced Trump's repeated attacks on the press: "Trump continues his unrelenting attacks on the integrity of American journalists and news outlets," McCain wrote in an op-ed. "This has provided cover for repressive regimes to follow suit."

The decisive healthcare vote.

A few weeks after being diagnosed with brain cancer, McCain returned to the Senate floor and cast his stunning "no" vote and scuttled Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's healthcare bill on a 51-49 vote.

"Watch the show," McCain said to reporters as he walked into the chamber before the vote.

The Republican-led "skinny repeal" would have repealed major portions of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law, and McCain's vote was crucial in derailing that effort.

McCain's vote has been a source of ire from Trump, who frequently disparages McCain's decision in his numerous campaign rallies.

McCain also had a gruff, but affectionate relationship with journalists.

McCain discontinues his brain cancer treatment.

On August 24, McCain announced he would discontinue his cancer treatment.

"In the year since, John has surpassed expectations for his survival," McCain's family said in a statement. "But the progress of disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict. With his usual strength of will, he has now chosen to discontinue medical treatment."

In a passage from his memoir, which was published in May, McCain writes:

"I don't know how much longer I'll be here. Maybe I'll have another five years. Maybe, with the advances in oncology, they'll find new treatments for my cancer that will extend my life. Maybe I'll be gone before you read this. My predicament is, well, rather unpredictable."

"I have some things I'd like to take care of first, some work that needs finishing, and some people I need to see. And I want to talk to my fellow Americans a little more if I may."

"It's been quite a ride."

"It's been quite a ride," McCain continued in his memoir. "I made a small place for myself in the story of America and the history of my times."

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Stumped museum curator -- can you help?

Stumped museum curator — can you help?

I’ve worked in History and museums for the better part of 20 years …

So, it was natural my cousin sent someone to me when they found something odd while removing an old chimney in an old house in Nebraska. “What is it?” they asked. It was a little card with some words and letters and numbers printed on it. The longer I looked, the less sense it made. I had no idea. In fact, it’s been a few…

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It's A Podcast, Charlie Brown

It’s A Podcast, Charlie Brown

Good grief

So, I’ve had a drastic move in my day job: It’s been about a year since moving to California for a dream job: I’m now the curator of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center. Yes, that makes me the official historian of Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the whole Peanuts Gang. It’s been fantastic, but it’s been hectic in my first year here and it’s not left any time at all for much…

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Politics: The incredible life of John McCain in 31 photos

"It's been quite a ride," McCain wrote in his memoir.

Republican Sen. John McCain, 81, has died after a long battle with brain cancer.

The Arizona senator was diagnosed with an aggressive form of glioblastoma and began treatment for the disease in July 2017.

McCain appeared to be undeterred for several months after his diagnosis was made public.

He was seen back at work on Capitol Hill last fall and weighed in on major legislative policies, including the annual defense authorization bill and efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

"I don't mean to be repetitious, but to my Democrat friends and some of my Republican friends: I'm coming back," McCain said during a Facebook Live event in August last year.

McCain made headlines upon his return — including when he dramatically voted no on the Republican version of a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

His career as a public servant spanned decades of honorable service, and despite some challenges along the way, McCain established himself as a key figurehead of the Republican Party. Few lawmakers on Capitol Hill will match the legacy he leaves behind.

Here's a look back at John McCain's incredible life:

McCain graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1958 and served as a pilot.

Early in his career in naval aviation, McCain's flying ability and judgment were questioned after he crashed three planes. His commanders were said to have sarcastically called him "Ace McCain" because of his record.

"John was what you called a push-the-envelope guy," Sam Hawkins, who flew in McCain's squadron in the 1960s, told the Los Angeles Times. "There are some naval aviators who are on the cautious side. They don't get out on the edges, but the edges are where you get the maximum out of yourself and out of your plane. That's where John operated."

On October 26, 1967, during the Vietnam War, McCain was flying over Hanoi when a surface-to-air missile hit his plane's wing, forcing him to eject.

"Some North Vietnamese swam out and pulled me to the side of the lake and immediately started stripping me, which is their standard procedure," McCain wrote in USA Today.

"Of course, this being in the center of town, a huge crowd of people gathered, and they were all hollering and screaming and cursing and spitting and kicking at me."

McCain broke both of his arms and his right knee. He had lost consciousness until he hit the water after ejecting from the plane.

McCain was held as a prisoner of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) for five and a half years. He was subjected to torture and solitary confinement in a Vietnamese prison nicknamed the "Hanoi Hilton."

Upon learning that McCain's father was an admiral in the Navy, who would eventually command all US forces in the Pacific, NVA forces provided medical care to McCain. Doctors performed surgery on his leg, according to McCain, but made incorrect incisions on one side and cut all the ligaments.

McCain would spend the rest of his life walking with a noticeable limp.

McCain was released on March 14, 1973.

The North Vietnamese Army had previously offered McCain his freedom, but he refused, thinking that it would bring shame and demoralize his fellow POWs.

Carol, McCain's first wife, raised three children while he was gone, and was reportedly recovering from a devastating car crash that left her impaired for months.

McCain made several trips back to Vietnam to bridge relations with the US.

McCain would eventually retire from the Navy in 1981 as a captain. His awards include a Silver Star and a Distinguished Flying Cross.

"I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty ... break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more," McCain said to the Naval Academy's graduating class in 1993. "All these things and more, I have seen. And so will you. My time is slipping by. Yours is fast approaching. You will know where your duty lies. You will know."

Source: Stars and Stripes

Some areas of the prison where McCain was held were converted into a museum, dedicated to the historic link between his service and the Vietnam War.

Source: Reuters

During a visit to the infamous prison, McCain said he could not forgive the jailers who mistreated and killed fellow POWs.

Source: Reuters

McCain married Cindy Hensley in 1980 and had a daughter, two sons, and adopted another daughter from Bangladesh.

Source: Los Angeles Times

After serving as a Navy liaison in the Senate, McCain took the leap into politics and was elected to serve Arizona's 1st Congressional District from 1982 to 1984.

McCain's political opponents criticized him early on, pointing to what they called his lack of connection to Arizona. He eventually hit back during a debate:

"Listen, pal. I spent 22 years in the Navy. My grandfather was in the Navy. We in the military service tend to move a lot. We have to live in all parts of the country, all parts of the world. I wish I could have had the luxury, like you, of growing up and living and spending my entire life in a nice place like the first district of Arizona, but I was doing other things. As a matter of fact, when I think about it now, the place I lived longest in my life was Hanoi."

"Looking back, I think the race was effectively over right then," McCain recalled in his autobiography. "But I didn't know that then. I was just mad and had taken a swing."

Source: New York Times, AZ Central

After his two terms in the House, McCain sought Arizona's Senate seat and won a landslide victory in 1986.

As a senator, McCain was a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He would eventually become the chairman of the committee, weighing in on a variety of matters involving the US military, such as funding and mission scope.

Source: AZ Central

Sen. McCain hit a bump in the road in 1989.

McCain was one of the "Keating Five" — five senators accused of trying to persuade federal regulators to ease up on Charles Keating, a major campaign donor who became financially compromised during the 1980s savings-and-loan crisis.

McCain, who emerged relatively unscathed after the Senate Ethics Committee's investigation, was found to have exercised "poor judgment." While the other four senators retired in the 1990s, McCain soldiered on.

"Despite my recovery, the Keating Five experience was not one that I have walked away from as easily as I have other bad times," McCain said in his memoir.

"Twelve years after its conclusion, I still wince thinking about it and find that if I do not repress the memory, its recollection still provokes a vague but real feeling that I had lost something very important, something that was sacrificed in the pursuit of gratifying ambitions, my own and others."

Following the scandal, McCain soon earned the moniker of "Maverick," a term his colleagues from both sides of the political aisle gave him as he advocated for campaign finance reform and sought to end government waste.

In the 1990s, McCain took on special-interest groups like the tobacco industry, and pushed for raising cigarette taxes to pay for anti-smoking campaigns. But McCain's anti-tobacco bill ultimately fell short after the tobacco industry launched a $40 million PR effort of its own.

"The losers are the children of America," McCain said.

Regardless of the outcome for some of his ambitious reforms, McCain's was easily reelected in 1992 and 1998.

Source: AZ Central

McCain would soon became a household name in politics. He set his sights higher and announced in 1999 that he would run for president in the 2000 election.

After losing several states in the primaries to then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush, McCain withdrew from the race and endorsed Bush.

One of McCain's crowning achievements in the Senate was the McCain-Feingold Act in 2002.

McCain, along with Democratic Sen. Russell Feingold of Winsonsin, helped enact the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, one of the first major amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act.

The legislation was designed to regulate financing for political organizations and curb the influx of soft money.

Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, McCain supported the US-led coalition war in Afghanistan.

McCain explained his support for Operation Enduring Freedom in a Wall Street Journal opinion column published in October 2001.

"There is no avoiding the war we are in today, any more than we could have avoided world war after our fleet was bombed at Pearl Harbor," McCain wrote. "America is under attack by a depraved, malevolent force that opposes our every interest and hates every value we hold dear."

"War is a miserable business. Let's get on with it."

McCain also supported the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and claimed Saddam Hussein was "turning Iraq into a weapons assembly line for al-Qaida's network."

Although McCain continued to voice his support for US military options in Iraq, McCain later admitted it was a mistake.

"The principal reason for invading Iraq, that Saddam had [weapons of mass destruction], was wrong," McCain wrote in his memoir.

"The war, with its cost in lives and treasure and security, can't be judged as anything other than a mistake, a very serious one, and I have to accept my share of the blame for it."

Source: USA Today

McCain announced his second presidential bid for the 2008 election.

McCain gracefully spars with then-Sen. Barack Obama.

McCain secured the Republican nomination in the primaries and faced off against then-Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois in the general election.

As McCain trailed behind polls, Obama's critics sought to discredit him by promoting false theories about his heritage and religion. During a campaign rally in 2008, one of McCain's supporters explained why she said she did not trust Obama.

"I have read about him, and he's not, he's not — he's an Arab," the woman said, incorrectly.

McCain quickly grabbed the microphone, shook his head and set the record straight.

"No ma'am," McCain said, calling Obama "a decent family man, citizen, that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues, and that's what this campaign is all about."

McCain selects Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate.

McCain later said he regretted the decision and wished he selected Joe Lieberman, the former Democratic senator from Connecticut, and his longtime friend, as his running mate.

"It was sound advice that I could reason for myself," McCain said in his memoir. "But my gut told me to ignore it and I wish I had."

McCain concedes to Obama in November 2008: "This is an historic election, and I recognize the special significance it has for African-Americans and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight."

On November 5, 2008, McCain formally conceded the election and congratulated President-elect Obama on his victory.

"A little while ago, I had the honor of calling Senator Barack Obama to congratulate him," McCain said. "To congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country that we both love."

"This is an historic election, and I recognize the special significance it has for African-Americans and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight," McCain added.

"I've always believed that America offers opportunities to all who have the industry and will to seize it. Senator Obama believes that, too."

As the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, McCain provided legislative oversight of the military and became a leading voice on veterans issues.

But as the chairman of the legislative body of military affairs, McCain also had to account for the military's failures.

For the most part, McCain maintained friendly ties with other lawmakers, regardless of their political party.

In July 2017, McCain announced he was diagnosed with brain cancer.

McCain received broad support for his recovery from both sides of the political aisle.

"I greatly appreciate the outpouring of support - unfortunately for my sparring partners in Congress, I'll be back soon, so stand-by!" McCain said on Twitter.

McCain feuded with President Donald Trump.

Prior to making a move to politics, real-estate tycoon Donald Trump threw jabs at McCain by throwing cold water on his military service.

Trump said the former naval aviator "was captured," and expressed doubt on whether he should be hailed as a hero.

"He's not a war hero," Trump said at a leadership summit in 2015. "He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured."

"I think John McCain's done very little for the veterans," Trump later said. "I'm very disappointed in John McCain."

Trump would continue to echo the remarks throughout his presidency.

McCain remained critical of Trump's presidency and did not shy from letting his feelings known. On Trump's controversial performance at his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in July, McCain described it as "one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory."

McCain also denounced Trump's repeated attacks on the press: "Trump continues his unrelenting attacks on the integrity of American journalists and news outlets," McCain wrote in an op-ed. "This has provided cover for repressive regimes to follow suit."

The decisive healthcare vote.

A few weeks after being diagnosed with brain cancer, McCain returned to the Senate floor and cast his stunning "no" vote and scuttled Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's healthcare bill on a 51-49 vote.

"Watch the show," McCain said to reporters as he walked into the chamber before the vote.

The Republican-led "skinny repeal" would have repealed major portions of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law, and McCain's vote was crucial in derailing that effort.

McCain's vote has been a source of ire from Trump, who frequently disparages McCain's decision in his numerous campaign rallies.

McCain also had a gruff, but affectionate relationship with journalists.

McCain discontinues his brain cancer treatment.

On August 24, McCain announced he would discontinue his cancer treatment.

"In the year since, John has surpassed expectations for his survival," McCain's family said in a statement. "But the progress of disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict. With his usual strength of will, he has now chosen to discontinue medical treatment."

In a passage from his memoir, which was published in May, McCain writes:

"I don't know how much longer I'll be here. Maybe I'll have another five years. Maybe, with the advances in oncology, they'll find new treatments for my cancer that will extend my life. Maybe I'll be gone before you read this. My predicament is, well, rather unpredictable."

"I have some things I'd like to take care of first, some work that needs finishing, and some people I need to see. And I want to talk to my fellow Americans a little more if I may."

"It's been quite a ride."

"It's been quite a ride," McCain continued in his memoir. "I made a small place for myself in the story of America and the history of my times."

source http://www.newssplashy.com/2018/08/politics-incredible-life-of-john-mccain.html

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Tech: Here's where Google's first 21 employees are now (GOOG, GOOGL)

Out of Google's first 21 employees, only six still work for the search giant. Among them: Susan Wojcicki, Urs Hölzle, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page. The rest have moved on to angel investing, philanthropy, and for many, lives of luxury.

Only six of Google's earliest employees still work at the internet giant — and that includes founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Some early Google employees have gone on to become entrepreneurs, while others are now angel investors, and a lucky few have gone on to become top executives at other tech companies. A few are happily retired.

In 2015, a Quora user compiled a list of all the original Googlers and where there careers have taken them. Only six of the original 21 are still at the company, which reorganized to become Alphabet almost three years ago.

Here is what's become of the first 21 employees since launching their careers at Google.

Jillian D'Onfro and Alyson Shontell contributed to previous versions of this article.

21. Marissa Mayer joined Google as a software engineer, then became CEO of Yahoo.

Employed by Google: June 1999 to July 2012

Most recent position at Google: VP of local, maps, and location services

Current company/position: Mayer served as CEO of Yahoo from July 2012 until June 2017, leaving the company after the completion of Yahoo's sale to Verizon. These days, Mayer is keeping a low profile, although she recently said she's started working on her next tech venture and has rented out Google's old office, the place she started her career in 1999.

20. Kendra DiGirolamo joined Google as an ad sales coordinator and left three years before the company went public. Now she's at Driscoll's.

Employed by Google: June 1999 to May 2001

Most recent position at Google: Advertising sales coordinator

Current company/position: DiGirolamo currently works as a senior business systems analyst at Driscoll's, a family-owned berry farming company.

19. Larry Schwimmer was an early software engineer at Google. He introduced Snippets, a productivity system, to help Google manage employees during the company's explosive growth period. He also drove the launch of Google Moon, a Google Earth-like service that shows satellite photos of the moon.

Employed by Google: 1999 to at least 2005 (unknown)

Most recent position at Google: Software engineer

Current company/position: Unknown.

18. Jim Reese was an engineer at Google. He was once knocked out by a 200-pound metal beam in a data center that Google was leasing.

Employed by Google: 1999 to 2005

Most recent position at Google: Chief operations engineer (and "Head Neurosurgeon" — he was a physician before coming to Google, and jokes on his LinkedIn that he performed frontal lobotomies at the search giant on Thursday mornings only).

Current company/position: Reese currently serves as a board member for Spark Program — a career exploration program for middle schoolers — as well as an advisory board member of Harvard Medical School's Department of Biomedical Informatics.

17. Gerald Aigner was brought in to manage Google's supply costs. Now, he's in London working as an "internet professional."

Employed by Google: 1999 to 2006

Most recent position at Google: Aigner was a member of Google's senior staff, according to his LinkedIn page. Specifically, he was in charge of the data center and internet/leased line negotiations, hardware design and purchasing, hardware and network monitoring, and performance optimizations. Aigner also founded Google's Zurich office in 2004.

Current company/position: Aigner lists himself on his LinkedIn profile as an "independent internet professional" based in London. He is also listed as an adviser for Maxeler Technologies, a London-based computer support company for which he is "exploring renewable energy and wireless technologies."

16. Susan Wojcicki is still at Google. She became the CEO of YouTube in 2014.

Employed by Google: April 1999 to present

Wojcicki was Google's 16th employee, and she followed Google's ninth employee, Salar Kamangar, as YouTube's CEO. In 1998, before Wojcicki even started working for the company, she and her husband rented out their garage and several rooms to the fledgling Google team for $1,700 a month.

Current position at Google: CEO of YouTube since early 2014. Before that, she was SVP of products and commerce, then SVP of YouTube.

15. Joan Braddi runs product partnerships for Google.

Employed by Google: 1999 to present

Braddi is Google's vice president of product partnerships and serves on the board of the biochemistry startup Profusa.

Current position at Google: Braddi previously served as vice president of search services at Google; now she's vice president of product partnerships.

14. Chris Skarakis led Google's business development until May 2005. He has since founded Blip.fm.

Employed by Google: May 1999 to May 2005

Most recent position at Google: Director of business development

Current Company/Position: Skarakis is the founder of Blip.fm, and also cofounded Fuzz Artists and served as its executive vice president. Skarakis serves on the board of directors for Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Little Kids Rock. He was formerly on the board of directors for the Kanye West Foundation, which shut down in 2011.

13. Rachael Chambers left her job at Netscape to join Google as an executive assistant in May 1999.

Employed by Google: May 1999 to October 2000

Most recent position at Google: Chambers was hired as an executive assistant, and left as an ad sales coordinator.

Current company/position: Chambers serves as a strategy and planning manager at Cisco. Prior to that, she was a program manager for Cisco on Cisco Customer Strategy and Success.

12. Steve Schimmel also did business development for Google and was the company's 13th employee.

Employed by Google: 1999 to 2004

Most recent position at Google: Business development

Current Company/Position: Schimmel now does some angel investing. His startup investments include HireAthena, Crowdrise, Roozt, and Guide. He also sits on the board of Airspace Systems, a venture-backed startup that makes specialized drones.

11. Omid Kordestani worked at Google for nearly 16 years before leaving to join Twitter.

Employed by Google: January 1999 to August 2015

Most recent position at Google: Chief Business Officer and senior adviser

Current company/position: Kordestani left Google in October 2015 to join Twitter as executive chairman. He bought nearly $2 million worth of Twitter stock in 2016.

10. Salar Kamangar used to be CEO of YouTube.

Employed by Google: 1999 to present

Kamangar served as CEO of YouTube until February 2014, when he stepped down, supposedly in favor of finding a new challenge at Google. Susan Wojcicki took his place.

Current position at Google: SVP of products for YouTube.

9. Georges Harik joined Google as a software engineer, and was one of three members on Google's initial engineering hiring committee.

Employed by Google: 1999 to 2005

Most recent position at Google: Harik most recently served as product management director. Harik was one of Google's first 10 employees and was responsible for product and strategy around Gmail, Google Talk, Google Video, Picasa, and more. He was also behind AdSense and the AdWords Online system and was the director of Googlettes, a start-up incubator inside Google.

Current company/position: Harik is now a cofounder of messaging app imo.im, cofounder of hslabs, and an angel investor. He also previously served as an adviser to GV, Alphabet's venture capital arm.

8. Urs Hölzle has been at Google for almost 20 years.

Employed by Google: 1999 to present

Current position at Google: Hölzle is SVP of technical infrastructure, which means he oversees the design, installation, and operation of Google's servers, networks, and data centers. Before he joined Google in 1999, Holzle was a computer science professor at the UC Santa Barbara.

7. Amit Patel was a top Google engineer and helped come up with Google's unofficial slogan, "Don't Be Evil."

Employed by Google: 1999 to unknown

Most recent position at Google: Though we couldn't find Patel's most recent title, Steven Levy's book "In The Plex" offers some interesting details about him. Patel was instrumental in highlighting the value of Google's search logs. He also asked Eric Schmidt if he could share his office, shortly after Schmidt had joined the company as CEO (Schmidt said yes because he thought it would be "un-Googley" to say no).

Current Company/Position: Unknown.

6. Harry Cheung was an original Google engineer.

Employed by Google: January 1999 to December 2004

Most recent position at Google: Cheung served as a software engineer at Google. His nickname used to be Harry "Spider-Man" Cheung because he was a "crawl" engineer, monitoring the progress of Google's "spiders" as they indexed the web.

Current company/position: These days, Cheung is an angel investor in startups including Caviar, Qwiki, Badgeville, and PrePay. He's also a founder at Roostify, a home-lending startup.

5. Ray Sidney was a software engineer at Google — he left 18 months before the IPO.

Employed by Google: January 1999 to March 2003 (he left about 18 months before the IPO, which made him quite wealthy).

Most recent position at Google: Software engineer

Current company/position: Sidney is the co-owner of The Residences at The Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain as well as Big George Ventures, a sustainable real-estate developer. He's also a triathlete and an amateur pilot, and he once donated $1 million to help launch a public bus service near Lake Tahoe, according to CNET.

4. Heather Cairns was an HR manager at Google.

Employed by Google: 1998 to 2005

Most recent position at Google: Cairns was an HR manager who hired Google's first 200 employees.

Current company/position: Cairns was previously an angel investor who provided funding for women-led companies that are pursuing social ventures. Her LinkedIn now lists her as the president of Coastal Streets, a small real-estate development company in Massachusetts.

3. Craig Silverstein was Larry Page and Sergey Brin's first hire.

Employed by Google: 1998 to 2012

Most recent position at Google: Silverstein worked on various projects, including mentoring engineers and serving as technology director. As Google's third employee, he helped actually build the search engine.

Current company/position: Silverstein now serves as dean of infrastructure at Khan Academy.

2. Sergey Brin is the cofounder of Google and serves as the president of Google's parent company, Alphabet.

Employed by Google: 1998 to present

Current position at Google: Besides any cofounder duties, Sergey Brin was overseeing Google X, the company's "moonshot factory," until Google's reorganization in August 2015. Now, Brin is president of Alphabet, Google's parent company.

1. Larry Page is the cofounder of Google and the CEO of Alphabet.

Employed by Google: 1998 to present

Current position at Google: Page helped found Google. After Google's reorganization, Page became CEO of Google's parent company, Alphabet.

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Tech: Here's where Google's first 21 employees are now (GOOG, GOOGL)

Out of Google's first 21 employees, only six still work for the search giant. Among them: Susan Wojcicki, Urs Hölzle, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page. The rest have moved on to angel investing, philanthropy, and for many, lives of luxury.

Only six of Google's earliest employees still work at the internet giant — and that includes founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Some early Google employees have gone on to become entrepreneurs, while others are now angel investors, and a lucky few have gone on to become top executives at other tech companies. A few are happily retired.

In 2015, a Quora user compiled a list of all the original Googlers and where there careers have taken them. Only six of the original 21 are still at the company, which reorganized to become Alphabet almost three years ago.

Here is what's become of the first 21 employees since launching their careers at Google.

Jillian D'Onfro and Alyson Shontell contributed to previous versions of this article.

21. Marissa Mayer joined Google as a software engineer, then became CEO of Yahoo.

Employed by Google: June 1999 to July 2012

Most recent position at Google: VP of local, maps, and location services

Current company/position: Mayer served as CEO of Yahoo from July 2012 until June 2017, leaving the company after the completion of Yahoo's sale to Verizon. These days, Mayer is keeping a low profile, although she recently said she's started working on her next tech venture and has rented out Google's old office, the place she started her career in 1999.

20. Kendra DiGirolamo joined Google as an ad sales coordinator and left three years before the company went public. Now she's at Driscoll's.

Employed by Google: June 1999 to May 2001

Most recent position at Google: Advertising sales coordinator

Current company/position: DiGirolamo currently works as a senior business systems analyst at Driscoll's, a family-owned berry farming company.

19. Larry Schwimmer was an early software engineer at Google. He introduced Snippets, a productivity system, to help Google manage employees during the company's explosive growth period. He also drove the launch of Google Moon, a Google Earth-like service that shows satellite photos of the moon.

Employed by Google: 1999 to at least 2005 (unknown)

Most recent position at Google: Software engineer

Current company/position: Unknown.

18. Jim Reese was an engineer at Google. He was once knocked out by a 200-pound metal beam in a data center that Google was leasing.

Employed by Google: 1999 to 2005

Most recent position at Google: Chief operations engineer (and "Head Neurosurgeon" — he was a physician before coming to Google, and jokes on his LinkedIn that he performed frontal lobotomies at the search giant on Thursday mornings only).

Current company/position: Reese currently serves as a board member for Spark Program — a career exploration program for middle schoolers — as well as an advisory board member of Harvard Medical School's Department of Biomedical Informatics.

17. Gerald Aigner was brought in to manage Google's supply costs. Now, he's in London working as an "internet professional."

Employed by Google: 1999 to 2006

Most recent position at Google: Aigner was a member of Google's senior staff, according to his LinkedIn page. Specifically, he was in charge of the data center and internet/leased line negotiations, hardware design and purchasing, hardware and network monitoring, and performance optimizations. Aigner also founded Google's Zurich office in 2004.

Current company/position: Aigner lists himself on his LinkedIn profile as an "independent internet professional" based in London. He is also listed as an adviser for Maxeler Technologies, a London-based computer support company for which he is "exploring renewable energy and wireless technologies."

16. Susan Wojcicki is still at Google. She became the CEO of YouTube in 2014.

Employed by Google: April 1999 to present

Wojcicki was Google's 16th employee, and she followed Google's ninth employee, Salar Kamangar, as YouTube's CEO. In 1998, before Wojcicki even started working for the company, she and her husband rented out their garage and several rooms to the fledgling Google team for $1,700 a month.

Current position at Google: CEO of YouTube since early 2014. Before that, she was SVP of products and commerce, then SVP of YouTube.

15. Joan Braddi runs product partnerships for Google.

Employed by Google: 1999 to present

Braddi is Google's vice president of product partnerships and serves on the board of the biochemistry startup Profusa.

Current position at Google: Braddi previously served as vice president of search services at Google; now she's vice president of product partnerships.

14. Chris Skarakis led Google's business development until May 2005. He has since founded Blip.fm.

Employed by Google: May 1999 to May 2005

Most recent position at Google: Director of business development

Current Company/Position: Skarakis is the founder of Blip.fm, and also cofounded Fuzz Artists and served as its executive vice president. Skarakis serves on the board of directors for Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Little Kids Rock. He was formerly on the board of directors for the Kanye West Foundation, which shut down in 2011.

13. Rachael Chambers left her job at Netscape to join Google as an executive assistant in May 1999.

Employed by Google: May 1999 to October 2000

Most recent position at Google: Chambers was hired as an executive assistant, and left as an ad sales coordinator.

Current company/position: Chambers serves as a strategy and planning manager at Cisco. Prior to that, she was a program manager for Cisco on Cisco Customer Strategy and Success.

12. Steve Schimmel also did business development for Google and was the company's 13th employee.

Employed by Google: 1999 to 2004

Most recent position at Google: Business development

Current Company/Position: Schimmel now does some angel investing. His startup investments include HireAthena, Crowdrise, Roozt, and Guide. He also sits on the board of Airspace Systems, a venture-backed startup that makes specialized drones.

11. Omid Kordestani worked at Google for nearly 16 years before leaving to join Twitter.

Employed by Google: January 1999 to August 2015

Most recent position at Google: Chief Business Officer and senior adviser

Current company/position: Kordestani left Google in October 2015 to join Twitter as executive chairman. He bought nearly $2 million worth of Twitter stock in 2016.

10. Salar Kamangar used to be CEO of YouTube.

Employed by Google: 1999 to present

Kamangar served as CEO of YouTube until February 2014, when he stepped down, supposedly in favor of finding a new challenge at Google. Susan Wojcicki took his place.

Current position at Google: SVP of products for YouTube.

9. Georges Harik joined Google as a software engineer, and was one of three members on Google's initial engineering hiring committee.

Employed by Google: 1999 to 2005

Most recent position at Google: Harik most recently served as product management director. Harik was one of Google's first 10 employees and was responsible for product and strategy around Gmail, Google Talk, Google Video, Picasa, and more. He was also behind AdSense and the AdWords Online system and was the director of Googlettes, a start-up incubator inside Google.

Current company/position: Harik is now a cofounder of messaging app imo.im, cofounder of hslabs, and an angel investor. He also previously served as an adviser to GV, Alphabet's venture capital arm.

8. Urs Hölzle has been at Google for almost 20 years.

Employed by Google: 1999 to present

Current position at Google: Hölzle is SVP of technical infrastructure, which means he oversees the design, installation, and operation of Google's servers, networks, and data centers. Before he joined Google in 1999, Holzle was a computer science professor at the UC Santa Barbara.

7. Amit Patel was a top Google engineer and helped come up with Google's unofficial slogan, "Don't Be Evil."

Employed by Google: 1999 to unknown

Most recent position at Google: Though we couldn't find Patel's most recent title, Steven Levy's book "In The Plex" offers some interesting details about him. Patel was instrumental in highlighting the value of Google's search logs. He also asked Eric Schmidt if he could share his office, shortly after Schmidt had joined the company as CEO (Schmidt said yes because he thought it would be "un-Googley" to say no).

Current Company/Position: Unknown.

6. Harry Cheung was an original Google engineer.

Employed by Google: January 1999 to December 2004

Most recent position at Google: Cheung served as a software engineer at Google. His nickname used to be Harry "Spider-Man" Cheung because he was a "crawl" engineer, monitoring the progress of Google's "spiders" as they indexed the web.

Current company/position: These days, Cheung is an angel investor in startups including Caviar, Qwiki, Badgeville, and PrePay. He's also a founder at Roostify, a home-lending startup.

5. Ray Sidney was a software engineer at Google — he left 18 months before the IPO.

Employed by Google: January 1999 to March 2003 (he left about 18 months before the IPO, which made him quite wealthy).

Most recent position at Google: Software engineer

Current company/position: Sidney is the co-owner of The Residences at The Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain as well as Big George Ventures, a sustainable real-estate developer. He's also a triathlete and an amateur pilot, and he once donated $1 million to help launch a public bus service near Lake Tahoe, according to CNET.

4. Heather Cairns was an HR manager at Google.

Employed by Google: 1998 to 2005

Most recent position at Google: Cairns was an HR manager who hired Google's first 200 employees.

Current company/position: Cairns was previously an angel investor who provided funding for women-led companies that are pursuing social ventures. Her LinkedIn now lists her as the president of Coastal Streets, a small real-estate development company in Massachusetts.

3. Craig Silverstein was Larry Page and Sergey Brin's first hire.

Employed by Google: 1998 to 2012

Most recent position at Google: Silverstein worked on various projects, including mentoring engineers and serving as technology director. As Google's third employee, he helped actually build the search engine.

Current company/position: Silverstein now serves as dean of infrastructure at Khan Academy.

2. Sergey Brin is the cofounder of Google and serves as the president of Google's parent company, Alphabet.

Employed by Google: 1998 to present

Current position at Google: Besides any cofounder duties, Sergey Brin was overseeing Google X, the company's "moonshot factory," until Google's reorganization in August 2015. Now, Brin is president of Alphabet, Google's parent company.

1. Larry Page is the cofounder of Google and the CEO of Alphabet.

Employed by Google: 1998 to present

Current position at Google: Page helped found Google. After Google's reorganization, Page became CEO of Google's parent company, Alphabet.

source https://www.newssplashy.com/2018/06/tech-heres-where-googles-first-21.html