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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 01:17:05 -0500
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- Subject: Re: Inauguration prayer
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- Billy Graham was not the only religious person involved in the inauguration.
- Did you not see the service in the morning with the ecumencial display. I
- think the transition before the Inauguration was pretty poor. I don't think
- that Clinton's Inaugural address was particularly memorable. It is not as
- distinguished a Cabinet as many had hoped, but just because you don't care for
- an old institution, Billy Graham, whose views on religion in many ways differ
- from mine and I take it from yours, does not mean that this Inauguration was
- not a step forward. When the best speech is delivered by a Black minister at
- an historically Black church and (forgive me, Robert Frost) the best poet
- ever to grace that occasion is a Black woman, there has been progress. When
- the Black minister turned to his Catholic, Jewish, and Muslim colleagues, that
- was not a step backward. Was there something you did like about the
- inauguration? To my taste it is getting to be too much like a Rose Bowl
- Parade or even Macy's. But that is just a matter of taste.
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