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BOB GRAHAM, FORMER U.S. SENATOR AND GOVERNOR WITH A COMMON TOUCH DIES AT 87

 

Bob Graham, perhaps the most distinctive and popular politician of modern Florida history, died Tuesday. The Democratic two-term governor (1979-87) and three-term U.S. senator (1987-2005) was 87. . . In Bob Graham's farewell speech to the U.S. Senate, he summed up his approach to the problems facing public servants in times of increasing partisanship – an approach that would guide his post-retirement push for civics education in the classroom."We must work together," he said, "to understand the problem and then develop solutions which are driven by pragmatism, not ideology."....MORE

 

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