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<p>"If anybody had asked a young John McCain whether he wanted to attend the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., his answer might well have been that, all things considered, he'd rather be in New Jersey. </p>
<p>In "Faith of My Fathers," McCain writes of a visit to Princeton University on a high school holiday. </p>
<p>"Long afterward, I would dream about enrolling at Princeton, joining one of its stately eating clubs and sharing in the romance of a place that seemed to me to offer equal parts of scholastic excellence and gracious leisure." </p>
<p>But in his family, going anywhere but Annapolis was not an option." </p>
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