His Last Refuge?

ENTERTAIN the following report from the Associated Press, dated several months from now, August 2000, from the Republican convention in Philadelphia:

In the most disruptive day American politics has seen since the historic 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, the Republican party was last night thrown into disarray by Sen. John McCain, the popular war hero it had rejected less than forty-eight hours earlier by the narrowest of margins. In a classic act of guerrilla politics that would have won the admiration of his one-time North Vietnamese captors, Mr. McCain threw the usually smooth-running GOP schedule into total confusion, while thousands of miles from Philadelphia.

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John O’Sullivan

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ENTERTAIN the following report from the Associated Press, dated several months from now, August 2000, from the Republican convention in Philadelphia:

In the most disruptive day American politics has seen since the historic 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, the Republican party was last night thrown into disarray by Sen. John McCain, the popular war hero it had rejected less than forty-eight hours earlier by the narrowest of margins. In a classic act of guerrilla politics that would have won the admiration of his one-time North Vietnamese captors, Mr. McCain threw the usually smooth-running GOP schedule into total confusion, while thousands of miles from Philadelphia.