Cohen: Sen. John McCain stood out by standing up to Trump

In 1956, John F. Kennedy published a study of character in the United States Senate. Reviewing the giants of the institution, he celebrated eight who put the country’s interest over their own, for whom principle mattered more than politics.
Profiles in Courage won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1957. When he ran for the presidency in 1960, the book gave Kennedy the intellectual heft to silence critics who said he was too young and too inexperienced for the office.
To JFK, courage was