Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steamy Sunday morning last July, Lyndon Johnson assembled 75 friends and aides in the White House movie theater for a 35-minute prayer service conducted by his weekend guest, Evangelist Billy Graham. It was all very informal. Graham read a few verses from the Bible, paid gracious tribute to the Johnsons in a brief sermon, and later joined the impromptu congregation for coffee and small talk in the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden. The idea for the service was Johnson's. However, when he was told that no similar rite had ever been held in the Executive Mansion, he hastily clamped...
...need not have bothered. In recent weeks, Billy Graham has come on like a White House chaplain-in-residence. Perhaps following the Pauline precept-becoming all things to all men that he might by all means save some-Graham returned to the White House as the Johnsons' guest the weekend before L.B.J. left office. He reappeared at Nixon's inauguration to deliver a prayer that sounded more like a sermon-and was not overly kind to his earlier host at the White House. After all, Graham had urged Nixon to make the race in 1968, and had been...
Prayers in the Mail. Last week Graham returned to the White House to conduct a service-with no secrecy at all -on Nixon's first Sunday as President. Graham's regular hymn singer, George Beverly Shea, was there, along with 200 guests, mainly drawn from the Cabinet and Nixon's staff. White House Curator James Ketcham confessed: "I've never heard of anything like it happening here before...
...form of righteousness. America's history revolves around the interconnected superstitions that one must deserve success; that one can (rather easily, by mere decorum) deserve it; and that if one deserves it, it will come. America was built on the symbiosis of Dale Carnegie and Billy Graham. These national superstitions have been prolonged in Agnew beyond their natural life by his blighting prosperity, his deals and millionaire pals, his anachronistic Main Street of steel and neon (replacing the old stone and shingle), his crippling good luck and gods who blind him with blessings...
Also named was Richard Blumenthal '67, former editorial chairman of the CRIMSON and last year assistant to Katherine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post. Blumenthal, who coined the term "New Middle," wrote his senior honors thesis on the Moynihan Report...