Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Martin Luther King Sr., 69, wife of the pastor and mother of the slain civil rights leader, was playing. As the 500 worshipers bowed their heads for the Lord's Prayer, Marcus Wayne Chenault, 23, opened fire with two revolvers...
...midweek, though, Northerners had elected a new moderator known to hanker strongly for union: the Rev. Robert C. Lamar, 52, a pastor from Albany, N.Y., who has co-chaired the Joint Committee on Presbyterian Union since 1969. As for the Southerners, they elected Dr. Lawrence W. Bottoms, 66, the first black man ever to become moderator of the once segregated denomination. At his investiture, Bottoms got one of the week's few laughs. As his predecessor put the chain with the traditional cross of office over his head, the new moderator remarked: "Any time any white person puts anything...
...what he belatedly read in the Watergate transcripts. The Rev. Dr. Peale, who has gaudily advised the multitudes in the powers of positive thinking, has uncharacteristically fallen silent over all that negative thinking revealed in the Oval Office. But the Rev. John Huffman, who was Nixon's sometime pastor in Key Biscayne, has not been as forbearing as the more famous ministers. He pointed out that the transcripts were the President's own account of what happened, not the Washington Post's, and he called on Nixon to "repent publicly and accept the forgiveness of Jesus Christ...
Some 26 Quaker meetings have endorsed a letter deploring the "collapse of moral leadership in the Executive Branch" and urging members of Congress to cleanse the Government. T. Eugene Coffin, pastor of the East Whittier Friends Church, where Nixon is on the membership roll, has refused to say anything critical of the President, but he is said to be a distraught man. Father John McLaughlin, the Jesuit who is a White House adviser, is still trying to straighten things out with some members of his faith for his defense of the language and thoughts found on the tapes...
Andrews' character grows as each witness adds anecdote or insight. His boyhood hockey coach remembers him as a superb athlete who once said, "When I try my best I always seem to hurt someone." His pastor proves that John learned early when to bow to expediency. At school he earned every honor, but may also have planned the burning of a dormitory so he could be a hero by saving his sleeping classmates...