Topic: Home Owner Warranty - Tempe homeowners believe home once housed McCain - KTAR.com

It’s not quite Abraham Lincoln’s rustic log cabin, but two men are excited that their Tempe house may one day bear the honor ”President McCain slept here. On a day when the expected GOP presidential nominee found himself in trouble for failing to remember how many homes he owned, the current owners of a house occupied by Sen. John McCain more than 20 years ago acknowledged they made their purchase unaware a piece of history was included. According to biographer Robert Timberg, in early 1982 McCain needed a residence in the suburbs east of Phoenix, and quickly. And in late 1986, before McCain was voted into his first term in the Senate, a report from The Associated Press revealed he planned to move after the election and wanted that news kept quiet. Butler noted that the McCains had a difficult time two years ago selling their own house, in central Phoenix, where they moved after leaving Tempe. read more

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