Bob Graham

Sen. Bob Graham of Florida said Thursday that he will undergo heart surgery in early February, postponing an announcement of a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Graham told reporters in his office that he had made up his mind to run and was planning to announce his candidacy in Tallahassee, Fla., on Feb. 3. Now, Graham said, he will have surgery to replace a faulty aortic valve that same week.

Florida Democratic Sen. Bob Graham, who put his potential presidential candidacy on hold because he needed heart surgery, underwent a successful operation Friday to replace a deteriorating valve. Doctors at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., said Graham was in stable condition in the cardiac intensive-care unit. "Sen. Graham's surgery went well and was an uncomplicated procedure," Dr.

Sen. Bob Graham of Florida on Thursday joined the growing field of Democratic hopefuls seeking the White House, starting his campaign even as he continues to mend from recent heart surgery. The 66-year-old Graham, who is serving his third term in the Senate after eight years as Florida governor, filed two sets of papers establishing his campaign fund-raising committee, one in the state capital of Tallahassee and the other in Washington.

Sen. Bob Graham spotlighted the major themes of his late-starting run for the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, blasting President Bush as an unsteady leader against terrorism and asserting that his own political resume in this pivotal state shows he can win the White House. "This administration has ignored homeland security in all but the words themselves while it focused all its energy on Iraq," Graham said at a rally officially launching his campaign.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bob Graham accused the Bush administration Thursday of stonewalling on the public release of a congressional report on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. "The only reason that delay has occurred is because the administration does not want our report to be available to the American people," said Graham, Florida's senior senator and former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Sen. Bob Graham on Sunday accused the Bush administration of engaging in a "coverup" of intelligence failures before and after the Sept. 11 attacks to shield it from embarrassment, and said the war with Iraq has allowed Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups to become a greater threat to Americans than ever before.

Since his first run for public office in 1966, Bob Graham has been unbeatable in Florida. He's been a state legislator, a two-term governor and now a U.S. senator for 16 years and counting. His resume, his sun-creased face, even his offbeat neckties with Florida-inspired patterns have made Graham a walking emblem of a state seen as crucial to Democratic hopes of winning the White House.

A congressional investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks has concluded that between 70,000 and 120,000 terrorists were trained by Al Qaeda in the "skills and arts of terrorism," Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) said Sunday. "We have to assume that as those people were placed around the world, some of them were placed inside the United States," Graham said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "Some of them are in the United States today.

CONCORD, N. H. -- Democratic presidential candidate Bob Graham said Thursday there were grounds to impeach President Bush if he was found to have led America to war under false pretenses. While Graham did not call for Bush's impeachment, he said if the president lied about the reasons for going to war with Iraq it would be "more serious" than former President Clinton's lie under oath about his sexual relationship with Monica S. Lewinsky.