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A woman who has known both men for 20 years put it this way: "He has tremendous respect and love for his dad. His whole being is that he idolizes his father. He gets choked up talking about his dad. He thinks his dad is someone who is beyond reproach. [Redemption] is not the reason he's running, but you can hear him rationalizing it that way. He thinks his dad was mistreated by this country, and it is not beyond the pale that his Inaugural speech would begin with a tribute to his father." For George W. Bush and the nation, the question is: What would come after that?
--With reporting by John F. Dickerson, with McCain