‘Meet the Press’ transcript for May 13, 2007

SEN. McCAIN:  Mm-hmm.

MR. RUSSERT:  Ronald Reagan on his first term inauguration, 69 years, 11 months, four days.

William Henry Harrison, 68 years, 23--several years older than Ronald Reagan.

SEN. McCAIN:  And William Henry Harrison.  The fact is that I'm in great shape, and I hiked the Grand Canyon with my son last August from rim to rim. I'm ready to serve, and I'm sure that people will make their own judgments. But they'll make their judgments by watching me and my performance.  And they were very happy to see Ronald Reagan in for a second term.

MR. RUSSERT:  And Wil--you were going to say about William Henry Harrison, after he took the oath...

SEN. McCAIN:  Poor guy.

MR. RUSSERT:  ...he died in a matter of months.

SEN. McCAIN:  Poor guy.  Yeah.

MR. RUSSERT:  Senator John McCain, we have to leave it there.

SEN. McCAIN:  Thanks.

MR. RUSSERT:  Thank you for sharing your views.

SEN. McCAIN:  Thank you.

MR. RUSSERT:  And our viewers should know, as part of our Meet the Candidates 2008 series, we have invited all the major candidates for president to appear here for the full hour.  We are also archiving the transcripts in videos of the entire series on our Web site, mtp.msnbc.com.  Voters can review the candidates' positions throughout the entire campaign.  And we'll be right back.

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MR. RUSSERT:  That's all today.  Before we go, kudos to major league baseball.  Three hundred major league baseball players will be using these pink bats today to support the fight against breast cancer on Mother's Day. You can buy one of these special pink bats from Major League Baseball via the link on our Web site.

Happy Mother's Day to an in-studio guest, Mrs. Roberta McCain, John McCain's mom is here, and we're going to talk to her about her son and his behavior growing up.  You can   watch it on our Web site after the show.

And, of course, happy Mother's Day to all the great moms out there.  We'll be back next week.  If it's Sunday, it's MEET THE PRESS.

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