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[–] Spritey 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

He crashed his first plane in 1958, and crashed again in October 1967, this time over Vietnam. The fires aboard the USS Forrestal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_USS_Forrestal_fire was triggered by him hotstarting his jet, initiating a chain-reaction of explosions that killed 134 sailors and injured 161. While he was POW he made propaganda for the enemy. He was never tortured. His father was an important navy Admiral, and that got him through.

With the three planes he destroyed aboard the USS Forrestal he is technically an enemy ace.

...and then we could talk about his political failures.