Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seventh Day Baptist Church...
Most inherited their faith. Five of the first ten Presidents were Episcopalian because in Virginia, where they were born, the Anglican church was the established church. Four were sons of preachers: Episcopalian Chester Arthur (son of a Baptist), Presbyterians Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson, and Quaker Herbert Hoover. William Howard Taft, the last of four Unitarians to reach the White House, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the most recent of nine Episcopalians to become Chief Executive, were active in church affairs all their lives. Calvin Coolidge (the only Congregationalist President) and Dwight Eisenhower (who was reared in a sect called...
Grandfather Sam Johnson started but as a Baptist, converted to the Disciples of Christ, ended up a Christadelphian-which may be why Lyndon's Cousin Oriole still belongs to that hyperfundamentalist sect. Christadelphians claim to be living in the "last days of Antichrist," do not feel called upon to engage in social or political welfare, and are not supposed to vote, though Cousin Oriole has voted for Lyndon. Johnson's parents were Hard-Shell Baptists, but at 14 Lyndon joined the Disciples of Christ (the Garfield faith), and was baptized in the Pedernales River a few miles from...
White House Aide Bill Moyers, who is a Baptist minister, replied that Johnson did not mean a memorial in concrete and stone, but perhaps a place like the prayer room installed in the Senate when he was a Senator. There the proposal died, and Johnson at least came out of it as a man on comfortable and familiar terms with...
...contenders' ladder, a few of us were willing to accept Floyd as the best heavyweight around. With Cassius Clay exiled from the boxing world no one will recognize Doug Jones or Ernie Terrell as a legitimate champion. Much as Lassman might wish that only nice Baptist boys from healthy middle class homes would take up boxing, that just is not the case. It just is not boxing