Nine months ago, Cindy McCain sat in front of a journalist in Rome.
It was her second day leading the world’s largest humanitarian organization — and her second day responding to a hunger crisis rippling across the globe. But from her new office at the World Food Programme, McCain sat poised, seemingly eyes wide open about the shift her life was about to take.
“Is it tough, to shed your political side?” asked Seth Doane, a CBS News correspondent, as he sat beside a woman who had traversed the highest rungs of America’s political orbit for the last four decades.