Reply #7: As a personal friend of the Graham family

[Monty__]

Thank you for bringing this up again.

My Grandfather was heavily involved in South Florida politics from the late 1940's through his death in the early 90's. He was close friends with not only Graham but Robert King High (Liberal Mayor of Miami who ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Florida in 1966) and Dante Fascell who represented part of Miami in the US House from 1954 until 1993 and who refused to sign the Southern Manifesto and opposed Vietnam.

Sorry for the long drawn out story but Graham was a great friend to my grandfather and still is a close friend to my family. I'll end by saying this. If Kerry were to have won in '04, Graham would have had a very high position in his administration and I'd be in Washington now and not Illinois (don't get me wrong, I love Chicago, but I'm just sayin....)