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She is shy around publicity and her son John largely omitted her from his best-selling book. She told [[Time Magazine]] in 2000, when [[John McCain]] first ran for president, that:

She is shy around publicity and her son John largely omitted her from his best-selling book. She told [[Time Magazine]] in 2000, when [[John McCain]] first ran for president, that:

:"I am so shy and so nervous that I couldn't tell you anything. I can't think on my feet. I would have a heart attack or jump out this five-story window. I'm worried that whatever I would tell you would be true."

:''"I am so shy and so nervous that I couldn't tell you anything. I can't think on my feet. I would have a heart attack or jump out this five-story window. I'm worried that whatever I would tell you would be true."

 

She was 88 years old then; as of 2008 she is 95 years old. She has been presented to the media by [[John McCain]] as a way of defusing questions about his age of 72, which would make him the oldest person to be elected president for the first time.

She was 88 years old then; as of 2008 she is 95 years old. She has been presented to the media by [[John McCain]] as a way of defusing questions about his age of 72, which would make him the oldest person to be elected president for the first time.

In 2008, as it became apparent that [[John McCain]] would be the [[Republican]] nominee, his mother Roberta declared that [[conservatives]] would have to "hold their nose" while they vote for him. John was asked about this in an interview on the [[CBS]] Evening News:<ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/04/eveningnews/main3789119.shtml</ref>

In 2008, as it became apparent that [[John McCain]] would be the [[Republican]] nominee, his mother Roberta declared that [[conservatives]] would have to "hold their nose" while they vote for him. John was asked about this in an interview on the [[CBS]] Evening News:<ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/04/eveningnews/main3789119.shtml</ref>

:[[Katie Couric]]: They'll support you even if, as your 95 year old mom, Roberta, said, they have to hold their nose while they're doing it?

:[[Katie Couric]]: ''They'll support you even if, as your 95 year old mom, Roberta, said, they have to hold their nose while they're doing it?''

:McCain: Well, you know, I mean ... in all due respect ... my 95-year-old mother, I think, is very much entitled, and has earned her right to her views. The fact is I am uniting the party. The conservatives are coming along -- in very large numbers.  

:McCain: ''Well, you know, I mean ... in all due respect ... my 95-year-old mother, I think, is very much entitled, and has earned her right to her views. The fact is I am uniting the party. The conservatives are coming along -- in very large numbers.''

Roberta McCain's husband, Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., died in 1981.

Roberta McCain's husband, Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., died in 1981.

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