This convinced him that McCain had "a higher calling to the service of the country, not himself."
Swindle, who is also a commissioner with the Federal Trade Commission, is an effective proselytizer for McCain's cause, according to the citizens who stopped to chat with him.
After a brief stop at McCain's campaign headquarters in Manchester, New Hampshire, the four headed home.
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They were successful in what they accomplished. That town meeting they advertised drew about 200 people, despite the early hour.
Polls of New Hampshire residents show McCain and Bush neck-and-neck. A McCain win in the state could give him a boost--though the candidates have more than a month between New Hampshire and the next series of primaries.