White House returns flag to half-staff for McCain, as the Senator gets a last word
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As American flags around the nation remained at half-staff Monday to honor Sen. John McCain, a Republican who had survived a Vietnam War prison camp and weathered the gradual coarsening of politics within his own party, the White House flew its own flag full staff - and then lowered it again - amid a public outcry that the president had stayed quiet as others mourned.