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Published 10/23/2008 by Michael Leahy at Wash Post In Congress
Facing the biggest crisis of his political career in late 1989, John McCain telephoned Jay Smith, an old friend and strategist, and asked him to come to a damage-control session in McCain's Washington office.
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