In an interview last spring, McCain's co-author and chief of staff, Mark Salter, said that the thing that struck him most about the senator as they prepared the book was McCain's humility. When I worked on this book with him, he just kept saying, 'Other guys had it a lot worse. I think they took it easier on me because of who my dad was. . . . That remains to be seen. And a very effective campaign ad.
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