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Graham greets Dwight Eisenhower, 1962, the first president with whom he developed a close friendship.
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Graham astounded skeptical observers by packing Madison Square Garden for sixteen weeks over the summer of 1957.
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Speaking from the steps of Federal Hall National Memorial on Wall Street in 1957, Graham tells a noontime crowd that money and the things it can buy will not bring lasting satisfaction.
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Ruth and Billy with their children. From left: Franklin, Ned (with Ruth), Anne, GiGi, and Ruth, 1963.
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Shortly before his inauguration in January 1961, President-elect John F. Kennedy poses with Graham, a fervent Nixon supporter, in Palm Beach.
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Lyndon Johnson once admitted that he and Billy Graham often stroked each other’s egos: “I told him he was the greatest religious leader in the world and he said I was the greatest political leader,” 1971.
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Graham and Richard Nixon bow in prayer on the platform at the Knoxville crusade, 1970.
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The Nixons and the Grahams at the White House, after a 1973 Christmas service.
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Billy Graham, sometimes called the High Priest of American Civil Religion, addresses an audience aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer, U.S.S. Cushing, 1990.
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Graham with President Gerald Ford, one of the evangelist’s many famous golfing partners, 1974.
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Graham addresses a crowd estimated at more than one million people, Yoido Plaza, Seoul, South Korea, 1973.
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A throng of 250,000 people packs Brazil’s Maracana Stadium to hear Graham speak.
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Graham chats with Queen Elizabeth, 1984.
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Graham with President Jimmy Carter and Vice-President-elect George H. W. Bush outside the Georgetown Baptist Church where Graham had preached, 1980.
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Graham addresses members of a Baptist youth camp assembled for the closing service, Hungary, 1977. Though not advertised publicly, the meeting was attended by more than five thousand Hungarians and other Eastern Europeans. At Graham’s right is his interpreter, Dr. Alexander Haraszti.
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Graham receives the prestigious Templeton Prize from Prince Philip, 1982.
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The Reverend Robert Runcie, archbishop of Canterbury, serves coffee to Graham at Lambeth Palace, 1989.
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His Holiness John Paul II welcomes Graham, sometimes called the Protestant Pope, to the Vatican, 1981.
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Graham shares a light moment with President and Mrs. Reagan, 1981.
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The original Billy Graham evangelistic team in a 1975 photo. Front row: Tedd Smith, Graham, Grady Wilson. Back row: Cliff Barrows, George Beverly Shea.
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Franklin and Billy Graham on the Great Wall of China during a seventeen-day tour, 1988.
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Graham sings a song with a group of Chinese schoolchildren encountered during his visit to the Great Wall, 1988.
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Billy Graham gives a Paris audience his familiar message: “La Bible dit . . .”
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Forty years into his public ministry, Graham tells a closing-day crowd at his 1986 Greater Washington Crusade that “the Bible [still] says . . . !”
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Billy gets his star on Hollywood Boulevard, making him the one thousandth celebrity to be so honored, 1990.
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President Ronald Reagan presents Billy Graham with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1983.
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The Graham family celebrates Ruth and Billy’s 50th wedding anniversary, 1993.
Billy Graham, evangelist.
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Bev Shea and Billy at the 2004 Los Angeles Crusade. This marked the 55th anniversary of the conclusion of the historic, eight-week “Canvas Cathedral” tent revival in Los Angeles.
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Billy and Ruth in their home in Montreat, North Carolina, Christmas 2005.
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Billy Graham’s original home (moved and reassembled from its previous site) and Billy Graham Library and Visitor Center, located on the grounds of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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The dedication ceremony for the Billy Graham Library and Visitor Center on May 31, 2007, featured (from left) former presidents George H. W. Bush and William J. Clinton, Billy and Franklin Graham, and former president James Earl Carter.
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President Barack Obama meets with Billy Graham, 91, at his home in North Carolina on April 25, 2010.
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Billy speaks at his final crusade in New York, 2005.
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Billy Graham at his home, July 25, 2006.
* In February 1991, when furnished with a copy of the manuscript of this book to permit him to check for factual errors (but with his own explicit disavowal of editorial control), Graham acknowledged that he had been surprised by much that he had read. “I knew what I had said to the President,” he remarked, “and I knew what he had said to me. But I was unaware of all those memos circulating in the background. When I read about that, I felt like a sheep led to the slaughter.”
*“That you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth” (Acts 13:47 NIV).
*“Guard what has been entrusted to you” (I Timothy 6:20 NRSV).
*“Having faithful children” (Titus 1:6 KJV).
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