08-21-2008, 06:25 PM
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Originally posted by Mike Slippkauskas:
By offering up the fact that the marriage was failed and offering up the amount of time they had been separated and, the Senator added, this was all 30 years in the past anyway. But I feel I could get in trouble if I can't cite chapter and verse, to quote directly, so that's all from me.
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That's not what happened at all. According to this article in the LA Times,
An examination of court documents tells a different story. McCain did not sue his wife for divorce until Feb. 19, 1980, and he wrote in his court petition that he and his wife had "cohabited" until Jan. 7 of that year -- or for the first nine months of his relationship with Hensley.
Although McCain suggested in his autobiography that months passed between his divorce and remarriage, the divorce was granted April 2, 1980, and he wed Hensley in a private ceremony five weeks later. McCain obtained an Arizona marriage license on March 6, 1980, while still legally married to his first wife.
That makes John McCain separated from his first wife for less than two months before requesting a marriage license.
Jim
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