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...Graham urged his audience to pray for Presidents no matter what they believe, saying all Presidents needed wisdom. He spoke of his love for Clinton and Carter as well, his "longtime friends. I love them all, regardless of politics and regardless of who stands for what...
...Graham had known so many of the first families for so many years that it was natural for him to evolve into a kind of informal White House Chaplain. Any man who regularly drew crowds in the hundreds of thousands, night after night in city after city, had come to learn painfully the price of celebrity. He could talk to them about their kids, their marriages, their doubts and questions, and the Presidents knew they wouldn't read about it in the Washington Post the next day. Churches can be highly political places; Graham was the pastor who made house...
...Clinton, 61, told the crowd of 1500 that "I am here because of the public Billy Graham and because of the private Billy Graham. When he prays with you in the Oval Office or upstairs at the White House, you feel he is praying for you. Not for the President." Clinton recalled going to Graham crusades in 1959, 1971, 1989 and 2005. "Billy has known me since 1985," he said. "But I have known him for nearly 50 years...
...Carter, also 83, praised Graham as a boundary-breaking preacher who had the greatest influence on his own spiritual life. Graham was the "first evangelist of any stature" who penetrated the Iron Curtain, starting with a crusade in Hungary in 1977 and eventually preaching four times in the Soviet Union. Concluded Carter, "I'm just one of tens of millions of people whose spiritual life has been shaped by Billy Graham...
...After all the testimonials, Graham took the stage and stole the show. "I feel like I've been attending my own funeral...