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Cindy Lou McCain is an American diplomat, businesswoman, and humanitarian who is the executive director of the World Food Programme. McCain previously served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture from 2021 to 2023. She is the widow of U.S. Senator John McCain from Arizona, who was the 2008 Republican presidential nominee.
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business · American diplomat and businesswoman (born 1954) · teacher · entrepreneur · businessperson · politician · also Cindy McCain, Cindy Lou Hensley McCain, Cindy Lou McCain, Cindy Hensley, Cindy Lou Hensley, Cindy Hensley McCain
Born 20 May 1954 · Q240628
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Opening Statement of Cindy McCain at her Confirmation Hearing to be Ambassador to UN Agencies for Food and Agriculture
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“I think the president fails to understand this, but more importantly, in my own – from my own feeling, we need more compassion, we need more empathy, we need more togetherness in terms of working together. We don”
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McCain warned that the 2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip could cause a humanitarian catastrophe
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“the worst food crisis, the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II.”
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To the International Fund for Agricultural Development on January 25, 2022, and to the UN World Food Programme on January 28, 2022
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Her confirmation hearing was held by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; she faced largely friendly questions mixed in with personal reminiscences from the committee members regarding times spent with either McCain o
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Her nomination was sent to the United States Senate
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The Guardian: Cindy McCain, lifelong Republican, endorsing Biden because ‘he’s the better man’
The Guardian: Cindy McCain rebukes Trump and publicly endorses Biden for president
“s re-election campaign. While not explicitly endorsing Biden at the time, McCain spoke in a video segment shown at the August 2020 Democratic National Convention about the friendship between her late husband and Biden. On September 22, McCain gave her full endorsement to Biden”
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Awarded Arizona Women's Hall of Fame (2019).
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Said, "When I talk about rape in Congo, people turn their backs and run, especially the men
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Career landmark: chairperson (2011).
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Fought back tears in an appearance as the McCain campaign reached its final day and subsequent loss to Obama
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Taking parts in its medical missions to Morocco, Vietnam and India
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McCain inherited majority control and became chair of Hensley & Co
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Became chair of the now $300 million-a-year Hensley & Co
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In the wake of the McCain prescription narcotics controversy
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McCain and the AVMT were honored with an award from Food for the Hungry
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Underwent surgery, which resolved her back pain
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Her parents staged an intervention to force her to get help; she told her husband about her problem and subsequently attended a drug treatment facility where she began outpatient sessions to begin recovery from drug addi
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The AVMT went to Dhaka, Bangladesh, to provide assistance following the 1991 Bangladesh cyclone
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McCain developed an addiction to Percocet and Vicodin
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Inspired by a vacation that she took four years earlier to substandard medical facilities on Truk Lagoon, McCain founded the American Voluntary Medical Team (AVMT)
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And was heavily involved in campaign strategy
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And John McCain was elected to the U
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At the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix
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Born 1954-05-20.
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s re-election campaign. While not explicitly endorsing Biden at the time, McCain spoke in a video segment shown at the August 2020 Democratic National Convention about the friendship between her late husband and Biden. On September 22, McCain gave her full endorsement to Biden
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