{"id":76660,"date":"2026-07-28T12:59:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/lindsey-graham-remembered-as-true-american-original-at-capitol-memorial\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T12:59:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:59:22","slug":"lindsey-graham-remembered-as-true-american-original-at-capitol-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/lindsey-graham-remembered-as-true-american-original-at-capitol-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Graham remembered as \u2018true American original\u2019 at Capitol memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Political leaders honor Republican US senator, whose hawkish foreign policy shaped decades in Washington<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/jul\/28\/lindsey-graham-funeral-donald-trump-benjamin-netanyahu-volodymyr-zelenskyy-iran-israel-hormuz-ukraine-russia-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>World leaders and senior political figures convened in Washington for the memorial of the long-serving US senator Lindsey Graham, remembering the \u201cswashbuckling\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/south-carolina\">South Carolina<\/a> Republican \u201ca true American original\u201d whose embrace of \u201cAmerica First\u201d never softened his advocacy for a staunch interventionist US foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>Prominent Republicans paid tribute to Graham, a polarizing figure and onetime rival turned stalwart ally of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> who championed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/us-israel-war-on-iran\">US-Israel war on Iran<\/a>. He was a prominent voice in the anti-abortion movement and a unwavering supporter of Israel, serving as one of Capitol Hill\u2019s most outspoken foreign policy hawks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/28\/lindsey-graham-capitol-memorial\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political leaders honor Republican US senator, whose hawkish foreign policy shaped decades in Washington US politics live \u2013 latest updates World leaders and senior political figures convened in Washington for the memorial of the long-serving US senator Lindsey Graham, remembering the \u201cswashbuckling\u201d South Carolina Republican \u201ca true American original\u201d whose embrace of \u201cAmerica First\u201d never &#8230; <a title=\"Lindsey Graham remembered as \u2018true American original\u2019 at Capitol memorial\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/lindsey-graham-remembered-as-true-american-original-at-capitol-memorial\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lindsey Graham remembered as \u2018true American original\u2019 at Capitol memorial\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}