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ABC's Ron Claiborne and NBC's Kelly O'Donnell filed on John McCain's autobiographical nostalgia tour Tuesday. Now Chip Reid catches up for CBS. The Republican Presidential candidate arrived at the United States Naval Academy and yet more tales of his youthful follies surfaced. As a midshipman "he was known more for insubordination than heroism," Reid recounted. McCain "graduated near the very bottom of his class; some were surprised he graduated at all." That reputation for heroism, of course, was earned later at the Hanoi Hilton, the nickname for the camp when McCain was imprisoned and tortured during the Vietnam War. NBC's O'Donnell continued her network's Family Ties series on the candidates' kin. She sat down with Roberta Wright McCain, the 71-year-old candidate's 96-year-old mother: "We did not discuss his captivity at all. It never did come up." "Had you later? Did you ever talk about it?" "Never--and it is too late now."
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