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- From: "James F. Tims" <p00168@psilink.com>
- Subject: Re: Who is Billy Graham?
- In-Reply-To: <1993Jan21.062135.10466@cs.ucla.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:48:05 GMT
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- >FROM: Brad Pierce <pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu>
- >
- >At USA President Clinton's inauguration Billy Graham was given
- >a prominent role. I seem to recall that Graham hung around
- >with former USA President Bush on the night that Bush decided to
- >initiate Operation Desert Storm.
-
- And Eisenhower during the Berlin airlift (and Elvis during the Berlin
- airlift!), and Nixon and LBJ and Carter and Reagan...
-
- >
- >How did this theist gain so much access to the powerful in *both*
- >major USA political parties?
- >
-
- Billy Graham is actually in charge. Has been for about 30 years. The
- elections are just a scam. The powerful are gaining access to him.
-
- _The New Columbia Encyclopedia_
- Graham, Billy William Franklin Graham), 1918-
- American evangelist, b. Charlotte, NC
-
- He was a lay preacher as a student (1936-40) at Bob Jones U. and
- the Florida Bible Seminary. In 1939 he was ordained a minister
- in the Southern Baptist Church.
- [...]
- The Minneapolis-based Billy Graham Evangelical Assoc., founded
- in the early 1950s, publishes _Decision_ magazine and produces
- weekly radio shows, TV specials, and movies. Among his many books
- [...]
-
- I guess the BG Crusade [adjectives as appropriate] has missed your
- neighborhood, eh? Every cloud has a silver lining.
-
- -jim
-
-