The veterans group American Veterans on Monday called on the White House “to show McCain proper respect.” The group called the President’s “two-sentence tweet” of well-wishes to McCain’s family “outrageous” and said the White House had shown “blatant disrespect” toward McCain “by lowering flags for not one second more than the bare minimum required by law, despite a long-standing tradition of lowering flags until the funeral [of the deceased].”
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