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Lindsey Graham in 2002 on his campaign to replace Strom Thurmond in the Senate | 60 Minutes Archive

2026-07-12 News & Politics
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In 2002, Lesley Stahl reported on retiring U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond and spoke with the two men vying to replace him, Lindsey Graham and Alex Sanders. Graham died Saturday at 71. "60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10. Subscribe to the "60 Minutes" YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/60minutes Watch full episodes: https://cbsnews.com/60-minutes/full-episodes/ Get more "60 Minutes" from "60 Minutes: Overtime": https://cbsnews.com/60-minutes/overtime/ Follow "60 Minutes" on Instagram: https://instagram.com/60minutes/ Like "60 Minutes" on Facebook: https://facebook.com/60minutes Follow "60 Minutes" on X: https://twitter.com/60Minutes Subscribe to our newsletter: https://cbsnews.com/newsletters/ Download the CBS News app: https://cbsnews.com/mobile/ Try Paramount+ free: https://paramountplus.com/?ftag=PPM-05-10aeh8h For video licensing inquiries, contact: [email protected]

Top Comments (10)

@RatgenerationX 2026-07-12

Here for the comments only 😂😅

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@EdA-f2s5k 2026-07-13

Strom Thurmond had his first daughter " (known) Essie Mae Washington-Williams a biracial woman who was a school teacher earned a master's degree, married, raised a family, and had a 30-year professional career in education, Strom was 22 when he and Essie's mother a 16 yo African American domestic worker working in Strom's families home conceived Essie Mae Washington in 1925. Essie Mae Washington's autobiography" Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond "(2005) was nominated for a both a Pulitzer prize and a national book award

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@ZZSmithReal 2026-07-12

24 years in the Senate and his one solution to every problem was a B-52. He's partly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people.

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@simonneke805 2026-07-12

He died doing what he loved the most: promoting death. 😂

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@captcyco 2026-07-12

We need to get the “ladybugs” confirmed during autopsy

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@rip-roaring_rick 2026-07-12

Lindsey Graham is now with Mitch McConnell!

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@sethdon1100 2026-07-12

Okay 60 minutes you post this right after he died. I see you

56 2 replies
@audioterrorism 2026-07-12

I guess this is when he gave up cruising bath houses and glory holes ... the first time.

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@jimboniusmaximus6018 2026-07-12

Human garbage. That is Lindsey Graham's legacy.

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@Ana-Namous 2026-07-12

Of course Mossad CBS is paying tribute to an evil warmonger!

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