PHILADELPHIA (AP) – When U.S. Sen. John McCain was a younger man, once or twice he was tasked with carrying Joe Biden’s luggage.
On Monday, after Biden, the former U.S. vice president, awarded McCain with the National Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal, McCain was sure to let everyone know he hadn’t forgotten.
“I’ve resented it ever since,” McCain said on the lawn of the Philadelphia museum as he accepted the award for his lifetime of sacrifice and service to the country.
Biden, along with a host of academics, politicians and business people, recalled McCain’s more than two decades of military service, his time in a prisoner of war camp in Hanoi, Vietnam, and his long career as a statesman.
But of all the accomplishments of the six-term Republican senator from Arizona, Biden quibbled with just one story.