Overheard: McCain and Mikulski

By Niels Lesniewski

Posted March 14, 2013 at 11:59am

“I can assure her that if she and I had served together in that place far away that she would’ve been a

very, very tough and courageous resister.”

— Sen. John McCain, regarding Sen. Barbara Mikulski after senators on the floor today recognized the 40th anniversary of McCain’s release from years of imprisonment at the Hanoi Hilton in what was then North Vietnam.

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