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Gospel Lives in the Oval Office

Posted Aug 29, 07 12:41 PM CDT in Politics,  Arts & Living,  US    Editor's Choice

(Newser) – Billy Graham has seen US leaders laid bare, from skinny-dipping with LBJ to long walks on the beach with GWB. A new book details the ailing 88-year-old preacher’s rendezvous with presidents past, including counseling Ford to pardon Nixon and advising Hillary Clinton to look past Monica Lewinsky. Graham’s refusal to be a party booster has lent him his independent spiritual voice, Bloomberg reports.

The swimming session came shortly after Johnson took office, as the men talked of healing a country torn over JFK’s assassination. Only Carter held out in befriending the holy man; Graham even elicited emotion from Nixon, hugging the future president at his mother’s funeral. But perhaps his most critical work was the 1985 waterfront conversion of the elder Bush’s heir.

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from left, Franklin Graham and Billy Graham sit with former Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton during a dedication ceremony for the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday,...   (Associated Press)
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Evangelist Billy Graham arrives in London in this May 11, 1955 file photo with his wife Ruth. Ruth Graham, who surrendered dreams of missionary work in Tibet to marry a suitor who became the world's...   (Associated Press)
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