A powerful moment: Nancy Pelosi escorts Congressman Sam Johnson of TX to casket of John McCain.

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6. Nancy's a congressional leader and a friend collector.

No idea who arranged for her to sit alongside Johnson (McCain?, Nancy and Sam Johnson?). Both would be right up front in special seats.

Republican lawmaker Sam Johnson rose from his wheelchair to pay tribute to the late Senator John McCain - the man with whom he had shared a cell in Vietnam for 18 months when they were prisoners of war.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi helped Johnson to McCain's coffin during a ceremony honoring the late senator in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Friday.

Johnson rose from his wheelchair, and, with a cane in one hand and Pelosi holding on to his other arm, walked to McCain's coffin to touch it goodbye.