Cindy Lou Hensley McCain (born May 20, 1954) is an American businesswoman, philanthropist, and humanitarian, and wife of the longtime United States Senator and Republican presidential candidate, John McCain of Arizona.
He was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, as the daughter of a rich beer distributor Jim Hensley. After receiving a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Southern California, he became a special education teacher. She married John McCain in 1980 and the couple moved to Arizona in 1981, where her husband would be elected to the United States Congress the following year and has been in office ever since. The couple has three children together, in addition to adopting the other. From 1988 to 1995, he founded and operated a nonprofit organization, the American Voluntary Medical Team, which arranged trips by medical personnel to disaster-stricken or war-stricken third-world areas. During this time, he became addicted to painkillers for several years and was forced to ask doctors to write illegal recipes on his behalf. He reached an agreement with the government in which no allegations were made against him.
After his father's death in 2000, he inherited majority control and became chairman of Hensley & amp; Co., one of the largest Anheuser-Busch beer distributors in the United States. She participated in both her husband's presidential campaign and, in 2008, drew both positive and negative checks for her appearance, behavior, wealth, spending habits, and financial obligations. He continues to be an active philanthropist and works on the board of Operations Smile, the Eastern Congo Initiative, CARE and HALO Trust, often traveling abroad along with their activities. During 2010 he has become prominent in the fight against human trafficking.
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Early life and education
Cindy Lou Hensley was born in Phoenix, Arizona, to James Hensley, who founded Hensley & amp; Co, and Marguerite "Smitty" Hensley (nÃÆ' Â © e Johnson). She grew up as the only child of her parents' marriage and grew up on Central Avenue in Phoenix in a prosperous state. (Dixie L. Burd, who was the daughter of Marguerite Smith through her previous relationship, was her stepbrother, as Kathleen Hensley Portalski, daughter of Jim Hensley and his first wife, Mary Jeanne Parks.) Cindy Hensley was named Junior Rodeo Queen of Arizona in 1968. She left to Central High School in Phoenix, where he was named Best Dressed as a senior and graduated in 1972.
Hensley enrolled at University of Southern California. He joined Kappa Alpha Theta student as a freshman, and had many leadership roles at home for four years there. Hensley graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in education in 1976. He went on to USC, and received his Master of Arts degree in special education in 1978. There he participated in a motion therapy pilot program that laid the way for standard care for children. children with severe disabilities; he published the work of Movement Therapy: A Possible Approach in 1978. Declining his role in family business, he worked for a year as a special education teacher dealing with children with Down syndrome and other defects in Agua Fria. Colleges in Avondale, Arizona.
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Marriage and family
Hensley met John McCain in April 1979 at a military reception in Hawaii. He was a US Navy liaison officer to the United States Senate and nearly eighteen years older than him. With his description later on, each faded their age saying that they were to another: "He made himself younger, and I made myself older, of course."
He has been married to Carol McCain for fourteen years and they have three children (two of whom he adopted from his first marriage). McCain and Hensley quickly started the relationship, traveling between Arizona and Washington to meet each other. John McCain was then encouraged to end his marriage; Carol and John stopped hanging out in January 1980, and Carol received a divorce in February 1980, effective in April 1980.
John and Cindy were married on May 17, 1980 at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix. They sign a prenuptial agreement that holds most of their family assets under his name; they have since kept their finances separate and filed separate income tax returns.
His father's business and political contacts helped John McCain to gain a foothold in Arizona politics. She campaigned with her husband from house to house during her first successful bid for the US Congress in 1982, and was heavily involved in the campaign strategy. His wealth of an out-of-date trust from his parents provided a significant loan for the campaign and helped him maintain an initial debt period.
After John McCain was elected, the couple moved to Alexandria, Virginia. He spent two months in late 1983 writing handwritten notes on over 4,000 Christmas cards to send to constituents and others. He is considered an outsider who is harassed by Washington's congressional social scene, in part because Carol McCain is a popular figure in the city, and he is growing longing for Arizona. She had multiple miscarriages.
He moved back to Arizona in early 1984 and gave birth to the couple's daughter, Meghan, later that year. She later gave birth to John Sidney IV's son (known as "Jack") in 1986 and James (known as "Jimmy") in 1988. Their fourth child, Bridget, was adopted in 1991. Cindy McCain's parents live across walk and help him raise children; Her husband is often in Washington and he usually only sees it on weekends and holidays. In his absence, he arranges a detailed fundraiser for him and extends their home.
In April 1986, Cindy and her father invested $ 359,100 in a shopping center project with Phoenix banker Charles Keating. This, combined with his role as a bookkeeper who later found it difficult to find a receipt for a family trip on a Keating jet, caused complications for her husband during the Keating Five scandal, while she was being checked for her role on the supervision of Keating's bank.
American Voluntary Medical Team
Establishment and mission
In 1988, inspired by the vacation he took four years earlier to the Lagoon Truck's under-standard medical facility, Cindy McCain founded the American Voluntary Medical Team (AVMT). This is a non-profit organization that organizes trips for doctors, nurses and other medical personnel to provide MASH-like emergency medical care to disaster-stricken or war-stricken third-world regions such as Micronesia, Vietnam (before normalized relationships between them). and US), Kuwait (arrived five days after the end of the Gulf War), Zaire (to help evacuate from the Rwandan genocide), Iraq, Nicaragua, India, Bangladesh and El Salvador. He led these 55 missions over the next seven years, each for at least two weeks. AVMT also provides treatment to poor children around the world. In 1993, Cindy McCain and AVMT were awarded by Food for the Hungry.
Adoption
In 1991, AVMT traveled to Dhaka, Bangladesh, to provide assistance following Bangladesh cyclone 1991. While at the Dhaka orphanage, Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa's House Children's Sisters, McCain met two female babies whom she felt needed to be taken to United States for medical treatment. She decides to adopt one of the girls, then named Bridget, with her husband agreeing; adoption became a final in 1993. He helped coordinate the adoption of other little girls to Wes Gullett's family friend.
Addictive drug addiction
In 1989, Cindy McCain developed an addiction to Percocet and Vicodin. He initially took opioid painkillers to ease the pain after two spinal surgeries for the ruptured disc. He also uses drugs to relieve emotional stress during the Keating Five. Addiction progressed where he took more than twenty pills a day, and he was forced to ask the AVMT doctors to write illegal recipes in the names of three AVMT employees without their knowledge. In 1992, his parents intervened to force him to get help; she told her husband about her problems, attended a drug treatment facility, started an outpatient session and ended her three-year addiction. In 1993, he underwent an operation, which completed his back pain.
In January 1993, Tom Gosinski, an AVMT employee who had discovered the use of illegal drugs, was dismissed on a budget. Next, he notifies the Drug Enforcement Administration of his previous actions and a federal investigation ensued. McCain's defense team, led by John McCain's John McCain lawyer John Dowd secured a deal with the US Attorney's office for McCain, the first offender, to avoid temporary allegations requiring him to pay for financial restitution, enroll in a diversion program and conduct a service community. Meanwhile, in early 1994, Gosinski filed a wrongful dismissal against McCain, in which he declared that he ordered him to conceal "incorrect acts" and "wrong facts in the judicial process"; he told her that he would receive $ 250,000. In response, Dowd marked this request as extortion, and asked Maricopa County lawyer Rick Romley to investigate Gosinski for extortion. In the end, Gosinski's credibility was undermined by testimony in Romley's report from other charity staff who asserted Gosinski personally promised to blackmail McCain if he had ever been fired, and Gosinski's suit and extortion investigation against him were dropped.
Knowing that prosecutors would publicly disclose his addiction in the past, McCain preemptively exposed the story to reporters, saying that he did so voluntarily: "Even though my behavior did not result in sacrificing any AVMT missions, my actions were wrong, and I'm sorry they... if what I say can help only one person to face the problem, it's worthwhile. "
Aftermath
AVMT concluded its activities in 1995 in the wake of the controversy of McCain prescription narcotics. That year, McCain founded a new organization, the Hensley Family Foundation, which donated money to children's programs in Arizona and nationally. He was mostly housewife during the balance of the 1990s. He also held positions as vice president, director, and vice chairman of Hensley & amp; Co. In the mid-1990s, he began suffering from severe migraine headaches, temporarily keeping them secret from her husband and minimizing their effects on other family members. His attacks often resulted in trips to the emergency room, caused by many different triggers, and he tried many different treatments.
Role in the 2000 presidential campaign
Despite being wary of the media and still not in love with the political world, McCain was active in her husband's failed campaign for the President of the United States in 2000. She largely cheered, without discussing her views on national policy. He impressed Republican voters with his elegance in coffee shops and other small campaign settings, where he often called his children, carpooling and charity work.
McCain was upset by the notoriously dirty tactics against her husband in the South Carolina primary that year. This includes allegations involving her adopted daughter, Bridget, whom she found "vile," as well as satire that McCain himself is currently a drug addict. Despite being deeply hurt by the attacks for a long time, Cindy McCain finally forgave those responsible. He was elected president of the Arizona delegation to the 2000 Republican National Convention.
Between presidential campaign
In 2000, he became chairman of Hensley & amp; $ 300 million per year at present. Co after his father's death. It is one of the largest Anheuser-Busch beer distributors in the United States. Cindy, her sons, and one of John McCain's sons from her first marriage, together own 68 percent of the company. As chairman, his role takes the form of consulting with company CEOs on key initiatives such as new products, new factories or employee benefits, rather than an active physical presence. He has no operational control of Hensley, and Anheuser-Busch regards him as the absentee owner. In 2007, it had annual revenues of more than $ 400,000 from Hensley and an estimated net worth of $ 100 million. He also owns at least $ 2.7 million of Anheuser-Busch stock. Together with his children, he has a minority stake in the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team.
McCain became actively involved with Operation Smile in 2001, taking part in his medical missions to Morocco, Vietnam and India. He was honored by the organization in 2005 and sits on the board of directors. McCain joined CARE's board of directors in 2005. He is on the HALO Trust board, and has visited operations to move land mines in Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Mozambique and Angola. She contributes financially to these organizations through her family beliefs and views her role as watching them on the ground to ensure that they are thrifty and their money is spent effectively. He sometimes criticizes foreign regimes for human rights reasons, such as Myanmar's military junta.
In April 2004, McCain suffered a near-fatal stroke caused by high blood pressure, although he was still able to attend several events. After several months of physical therapy to overcome the limitations of the feet and hands, he made the recovery mostly full, though he still suffered from short-term memory loss and difficulty in writing. He owns a house in Coronado, California, next to Hotel del Coronado; His family was on holiday in Coronado growing up, and he went there for healing and family get-togethers. He or his family owns other residential and commercial real estate in California, Arizona and Virginia and, including rental properties, McCain owns ten homes and parts of three office complexes. He is an amateur pilot and a racecar driver.
Role in the 2008 presidential campaign
She was active and seen in her husband's second presidential campaign during 2007 and 2008, although she did not want her husband to start initially because of the bad memories of their 2000 experience and worried about the effects on her children, especially the Jimmy boy who was heading to serve in the Iraq War. She eventually supports her husband in her goal, but defines her own campaign role; he often returns to Arizona to attend domestic chores or interrupt campaigns for his foreign charity work. She prefers traveling with her husband and introduces her rather than acting as a substitute for campaigns with separate schedules. In August 2008, a member of the community shook his hand very hard, aggravating the condition of the existing carpal tunnel syndrome and causing him to sprain a bit of his wrist. This campaign aggravates his migraine headaches and he sometimes has to wear sunglasses to protect himself from bright light. The pressure from the campaign also brings a variety of behaviors between him and her husband, varying from the very gentle moments and the worries to rage an argument that worries their staff.
McCain stated that the American public wants the First Lady of the United States to be inclined toward a traditional role in that position. He will not attend the Cabinet meeting, but will continue his involvement in non-profit organizations abroad and will urge Americans to do the same globally or locally. He envisioned himself as a possible figure for humanitarian work, along the lines of Diana, Princess of Wales. She continues to expand her role in such an organization, joining April 2008 the Grateful Nation Montana council, which provides scholarships and services to children of Montana service personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He made critical statements against the Bush administration for not deploying enough troops during the Iraq war. His rigorous scrutiny of McCain campaign finance books during the first half of 2007 convinced the candidate that his wasteful spending could not continue and led to a very rapid reduction of staff and scope of campaigns in the middle of the year. In February 2008, McCain made the news by being critical of Michelle Obama, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, who has said, "And let me tell you something: For the first time in my adult years, I am really proud with my country. "McCain, who was really offended by the saying, replied:" I am proud of my country I do not know about you - if you heard those words before - I am very proud of my country. Also in February 2008, she publicly appeared beside her husband during a press conference in response to a newspaper report about her relationship with a lobbyist.
McCain faced media scrutiny about his wealth, spending habits, and financial obligations. He initially refused to release his separate income tax returns, saying that it was a matter of privacy and he would not release it back even if he became First Lady He then released the first two pages back in 2006, which showed $ 6 million in revenue for that year nearly $ 570,000 in itemized deductions and more than $ 1.7 million paid in federal income tax). The campaign says that every decision about how to handle its role in Hensley & amp; Co if he becomes the First Lady will not be made until then. While he stood to gain huge profits from an approved acquisition of Anheuser-Busch by Belgian company InBev, he was initially under political pressure to help defy the deal and keep Anheuser-Busch under American ownership.
In June 2008, a Rasmussen Reports poll found that 49 percent of voters looked at Cindy McCain well and 29 percent were unpleasant, while the ABC News/Washington Post poll found 39% and 25% respectively. His fashion style and taste have been the subject of many media observations. McCain is compared to former first lady Nancy Reagan, because of her style and outfit and her attitude. At the start of the campaign, some of the recipes attributed to Cindy McCain were copied from other sources; campaign associates issues with errors by apprenticeship.
Cindy McCain spoke on the opening night and last night of the Republican National Convention in early September 2008. On the first night, cut short by national concern about Hurricane Gustav, he appeared with First Lady Laura Bush to deliver a brief speech encouraging support for storm relief efforts along The Gulf Coast, and on the last night, he introduced seven of McCain's sons and talked about how her husband's love for his country passed on to them. In October 2008, he increased the intensity of his public statements against Obama's candidacy, spoke with a surprising vitriol in accusing Obama's campaign of being the dirtiest in history and saying his position was opposed to the war financing bill, "On the day that Senator Obama fired him, the vote for not financing his son me when he served sending cold cold through my body. "The pressure from the campaign caused McCain's 5-to-7-inch (1.70 m) weight to drop below £ 100 (45 kg). On November 4, 2008, he fought back tears in appearance when McCain's campaign reached his final day and lost Obama.
Next activity
After the election, Cindy McCain was approached about performing at Dancing With the Stars . He really considered participating, but according to John McCain, worried that his knee-replaced operation would not be able to withstand the rigors of the competition.
Continuing his humanitarian assistance working with January 2009 travel to Dubai, India and Cambodia, he said that he was relieved that the campaign had ended and that, while it had been "wild and crazy" at times, it had also been "an amazing experience to be a competitor for the highest office in the country. "He said the ongoing global economic crisis had a devastating impact on humanitarian organizations, and he expressed hope that President Obama would succeed in dealing with it.
He expressed support for LGBT rights by appearing with his daughter Meghan at the April 2009 convention of Log Cabin Republicans, and posing for NOH8 Campaign, a gay rights project opposing California Proposition 8, a ballot prohibiting same-sex marriage. The following year he appeared in other NOH8 public service announcements against intimidation, and in it appeared to break up with his husband's position and expressed his support for the lifting of a "Do not ask, do not tell" policy that prohibits gays serving openly in the US Military. But he later tweeted that "I fully support the NOH8 campaign and it all stands and I am proud to be part of it, but I stand with my husband's attitude to DADT."
In September 2009, he talked about his migraine openly for the first time and decided to speak at the International Headache Congress on raising awareness for patients. During his last senatorial re-election campaign in 2010, he rarely appeared in public.
McCain performed in March 2011 along with the founder of East Congo Initiative Ben Affleck to testify before a panel of Foreign Affairs Committee on behalf of continued monetary aid to the Democratic Republic of Congo, in an environment where Republican-controlled Parliament is trying to make cuts for foreign aid. He has noted the difficulty of getting attention to some of the topics he most senses; at a summit meeting without violence in 2012, he said, "When I talk about rape in Congo, people turn and run, especially the men."
In late 2013 and early 2014, McCain used the Super Bowl XLVIII opportunity to highlight his concerns about the sex trade in the United States, a problem he started working with with The McCain Institute. He campaigned for legislation to address issues at federal and state levels. He also served as co-chair of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer's Task Force on Human Trafficking.
In April 2015, during the Sedona Forum, Cindy McCain and actress Demi Moore discussed ways to end the sex trade. Later that year he performed with Heidi Heitkamp, ​​Democratic Senator from North Dakota, to discuss human trafficking in the state and elsewhere. He said about trade, "Everyone has seen it, they just do not know what they see." He praised Obama and Congress for passing the Trial to Victims of Trafficking in 2015 and, together with Malika Saada Saar, executive director of the Human Rights Project for Girls, started No Such Thing Campaign to end the use of the term "child prostitute", saying "there is only victims and victims of child rape. "
After a change in administration in Washington, in May 2017 it was reported that Cindy McCain was being considered for an important role in the US State Department, possibly focusing on issues related to human trafficking. In June 2017, there were further reports that after extensive recruitment by President Trump following the recommendation of Ivanka Trump, he agreed to become Ambassador dealing with human trafficking, refugee and humanitarian issues. There has been no official announcement on this matter. In July 2017, she faced news that her husband had been diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor. He issued a public statement saying that, "We as a family will face the next obstacle together.One thing I know is he is the heaviest person I know He is my hero and I love him with all my heart."
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