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After attending one of the crusades, Luce met up with Graham at a dinner that evening. The publisher and the preacher talked late into the night. "I think he was trying to pull me out," Graham later said, "to see if I was genuine or honest...
...been on countless magazine covers had only three hung on his office wall: the TIME cover from 1954, a 1992 TIME cover called A CHRISTIAN IN WINTER, and THE PRODIGAL SON, our last Graham cover, with his son Franklin, from 1996. Nancy and Michael's book, The Preacher and the Presidents, was conceived after they covered the 2004 election. It is the inspiration for a one-hour ABC documentary on Graham, hosted by Charles Gibson, airing Friday, Aug. 10. Gibbs, who wrote one of the covers on Graham's wall, says, "It seems that we've been trying to figure...
...story that needed to be told. Perhaps more than anyone else, he had shaped the contours of American public religion and had seen close up how the Oval Office affects people. We wondered what the world's most powerful men wanted from the world's most famous preacher. What worried them, and what calmed them? "Their personal lives--some of them--were difficult," he told us. "But I loved them all. I admired them all. I knew that they had burdens beyond anything I could ever know or understand...
Lyndon Johnson was obsessed with his own mortality. "He was always a little bit scared of death," Graham said, and thus wanted a preacher handy--like the time he talked Graham into flying to a convention with him because the weather was so bad, he thought the plane might crash. Having entered office in the shadow of the Kennedy assassination, Johnson was conscious of how a President's death can shatter a country. Long before his Administration collapsed and he announced that he would not seek a second term in 1968, Johnson privately told Graham what he was thinking...
...preacher who had no church, and who spent his life preaching to football stadiums full of people he never saw again, the First Families gave Graham the rare chance to be a family pastor. He gave them a sanctuary; they gave him a congregation. He carried the families through times of loss--literal and political; several wanted him to be with them during their last nights in the White House. Richard Nixon collapsed in Graham's arms at his mother's funeral in 1967. Bill Clinton took him to sit at the bedside of a dying friend in 1989. Graham...