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Editor's Note: Last Saturday, Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings died at the age of 97. Back in December 2004, Mike Wallace spoke with Senator Hollings on the eve of his retirement from the U.S. Senate. Below is a transcript of that story, entitled "A Feisty Farewell."

He's long been known as the tartest tongue of the Senate.

But feisty Fritz Hollings, Democrat, South Carolina, is giving up his seat. He didn't lose it, he wasn't defeated by a younger Republican, but after 38 years he just decided enough's enough.

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"The Senate has changed, and not for the better," he says. "I'm sick of raising money to get re-elected so I'm going home to Charleston."

And that's where we sat down with him to let him fire a few final barbs about what's wrong with Congress.

Insights from an insider who knows better than anyone the unhappy differences between then and now, especially when it comes to money.

Senator Fritz Hollings: Whoo. When I got up, there was hardly a breakfast or an evening receptio