McCain graduated near the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy, where he was infamous for his large number of demerits. As a Navy pilot, he was shot down over Hanoi in 1967, captured and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp. There he spent more than five years enduring torture and solitary confinement but refusing offers to be released before fellow POWs who had been held longer. During a 2007 Republican presidential debate, he mentioned that Hillary Clinton had earmarked $1 million in the Senate for a cultural museum in Woodstock, in upstate New York. McCain hadn’t attended the festival in 1969: "I was tied up at the time."