Roberta McCain, John McCain's mother, dies at 108
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Roberta McCain's daughter, Jean McCain, died last year.When Sen. John McCain wrote a memoir about his experience as a POW for nearly six years in a north Vietnamese prison, he described times when he swore in English at his Vietnamese guards, who didn’t understand.His mother later told him: “Johnny, I’m going to come over there and wash your mouth out with soap.”Meghan McCain recalled her grandmother's strong will and sense of duty in a 2012 column for The Daily Beast website, writing that Roberta McCain did not have “a lot of patience for excuses, especially from my father when he was growing up and acting out.”“She once hit him over the head with a thermos in the back of a car because he was acting up so badly on a road trip,” Meghan McCain wrote.The McCain matriarch’s spunky personality became the stuff of stories for the family — and among those in their circle of Washington society.“Last Christmas, she wanted to drive around France.
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