FINAL WARNING: Setting the Stage for Destruction
of any man I ever met.”Billy Graham has been the personal friend and confidant of every
President since Eisenhower. Apparently Billy’s ‘bar’ was not raised too
high, because he saw our country’s leaders (as well as other political
leaders) as Christians, yet their fruit did not bear that out. Even though
he was a Democrat, in 1960, he wrote an article for Life magazine to
endorse Richard Nixon’s presidential candidacy, who was his “closest
friend in the political world.” Henry Luce refused to publish it because
of pressure from the Kennedy camp.He described President Johnson as a man whose “spiritual roots are
deep in Texas,” and “a man reared in deep religious faith that has
prevailed in this Southwest country since the beginning.”Graham said that “Nixon held such noble standards of ethics and
morality for the nation,” and also said that he had “given moral and
spiritual leadership to the nation at a time when we desperately need
it...” He claimed that Nixon had a “deep personal faith in God ...
Although he doesn’t flaunt his faith publicly, I know him to be a deeply
religious man.” When Nixon was the recipient of quite a backlash from
the American people for planning a trip to Red China, Billy Graham
flew to Washington, DC, and called a meeting at the White House of
leading ministers from across the country. Both he and Henry
Kissinger were able to convince them that the trip to Communist China
was necessary. At his May, 1968 Crusade, he said that there was “no
American I admire more than Richard Nixon.”He wrote about President Ford (a Mason, and member of the CFR): “I
knew him to be a professing Christian, and we had several times of
prayer together. He was always warm, friendly, and outgoing to me ...
A lot of us Christians saw him as a spiritual leader as well as a political
one.”In an interview with the U.S. News and World Report on May 3, 1993 he
said about President Bill Clinton (pro-gay, pro-abortion, and adulterer):
“I am quite impressed with his charisma and with some of the things
he believes. If he chose to preach the gospel instead of politics, he
would make a great evangelist.” His autobiography Just As I Am talks
about being with Clinton on May 1, 1996, and said: “It was a time of