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Senator Lindsey Graham died on Saturday night, a day after returning from Ukraine and four months before he was to face re-election.
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In an interview on Sunday, President Trump recounted his last conversation with Senator Lindsey Graham, hours before his death. Mr. Graham sounded "perfect," he said.
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Mr. Graham's unexpected death on Saturday prompted a wave of tributes for an outsize and often divisive figure in U.S. foreign policy.
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He died from "a brief and sudden illness" on Saturday evening, his office said. Over more than two decades in the Senate, he consistently pushed for the use of U.S. military power overseas.
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The influential politician had just returned from Kyiv, where he met Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday.
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