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McCain's Family Fights to Define Legacy of Civility, Service

Associated Press

   Cindy McCain stood on a knoll in Tempe, Arizona, last year and looked
   out over the Rio Salado.

   The spot where she stood, on 26 acres (11 hectares), is where she and
   her ailing husband, Sen. John McCain, had discussed building a
   "gathering place" for his archives, hiking and perhaps candidate
   debates -- but especially for listening.

   "We had planned a library," the senator's widow said in a telephone
   interview this week. "But it will also be a focal point for gathering
   to talk about these issues to have honest and real discussions about
   them."

   A year after McCain's death from brain cancer, the library is one way
   his family members are fighting to shape how the world remembers the
   Vietnam War hero and veteran senator and to prevent President Donald
   Trump from doing it for them. The counterprogramming also includes
   videos and its own Twitter hashtag, #ActsofCivility, in which the
   McCains ask Americans to perform and post affirmative acts of listening
   to one another and agreeing to disagree.

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