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- From: livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Who is Billy Graham?
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 06:50:43 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.062135.10466@cs.ucla.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan21.062135.10466@cs.ucla.edu>, pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Pierce) writes:
- |> 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.
- |>
- |> How did this theist gain so much access to the powerful in *both*
- |> major USA political parties?
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- My theory is that it's because the other evangelists make him
- look so respectable.
-
- By the way, he goes back a looong way. Pat and Dick Nixon used
- to go to his revival meetings when Tricky was V.P.
-
- jon.
-