Florida’s past and present came together Friday in an ideal setting: the historic Old Capitol in Tallahassee. Bob Graham, the former two-term governor and three-term senator who died April 16 at age 87, lay in state on the second floor of the old building where he began his career as a 30-year-old state legislator from Miami Lakes in 1966. Hundreds of people waited patiently in line for more than an hour and then climbed the steep, century-old stairs to walk past Graham’s casket and express condolences to his widow, Adele, who sat nearby in a wingback chair as a quartet played light classical music downstairs. For a few hours, there was an abundance of history in that historic Capitol, and no one had a greater appreciation for Florida history than Graham himself. Mike Stocker/Sun SentinelSteve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel editor and columnist. On a sunny, cloudless day, citizens from all walks of life stood side-by-side with the political operators who worked for Graham or with him. They recalled Graham’s essential decency and his love of Florida, even as they dredged up memories of decades-old political battles. Some recalled the landmark Florida Supreme Court case of Brown v.