The memory of Senator John McCain strikes an important cord this week due to the politics as usual going on in Washington as of late. “I was an imperfect servant, but I was always a servant,” he said. He was willing to cross party lines for what he considered the better interests of his country. In the late 1990s when I was with Food for the Hungry, I arrived in the wee hours of the morning at Sky Harbor airport, and there was McCain, reading his newspaper alone, no staff, no body- guards, no Lear Jets. In 2012, I visited the “Hanoi Hilton” in Vietnam as the CEO of Hagar, and came across an exhibit saying that the Vietnamese tried to convince John and his fellow prisoners to be photographed “enjoying” their Thanksgiving dinner – but John and his cellmates would have none of it. I’ll never forget watching McCain vote down the Obamacare repeal, perturbed by a closed-door, rushed process. During the eulogy in our Nation’s Capital, Former President Barak Obama observed to the effect that, “John had the last laugh. He got George and me (George Bush) in front of a national audience saying good things about him.” We’ll miss the integrity, bravery and sly sense of humor and irony of this political “maverick.” Read the newsletter . . .