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...citizens, and should do so again in the case of a war that was regarded by many Americans as immoral. While few extremists on the amnesty issue were pleased with President Ford's proposal, many Americans regarded it as a constructive step. Stanford Professor Robert McAfee Brown, a Presbyterian pastor who served five days in jail after a 1971 demonstration, called Ford's plan "a very gutsy thing," especially since Brown had assumed "the issue was going to be on the back burner for a long time...
...Maui was where he chose to die and be buried. When doctors at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York told him last month that he had only days to live, Lindbergh, confined to a stretcher, had himself flown to Maui, where he arranged the details of his funeral and burial as meticulously as he had planned his flight to Paris 47 years before. Following his instructions, he was buried within eight hours after his death. Hawaiian cowboys crafted a roughhewn casket of eucalyptus wood, and a grave was quickly dug atop a cliff overlooking the Pacific. His body...
...prayers were not something special for that tumultuous day. The three men, plus former Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, a Presbyterian, had been holding similar meetings weekly for three months, reviving a custom Ford, Laird and Quie had first begun in 1967. Quie says confidently that "we expect to continue," even with Ford in the White House-though the place and time will change...
...James W. McCord Jr., 50, whose letter to Judge John Sirica burst the Watergate dam, has told friends that sermons in suburban Washington's Fourth Presbyterian Church had a powerful impact on his decisions that winter. On the first Sunday of January 1973, McCord, a Methodist who had started attending the church only weeks before, heard the Rev. Richard Halverson, Washington's best-known evangelical preacher, talk about the power of Satan that tempted leaders to play God. The next week, when approached by White House Aide John Caulfield, McCord refused to plead guilty and remain silent...
...Stuart Magruder, 39, was accompanied by the Rev. Louis Evans Jr., of Washington's National Presbyterian Church, when he was sentenced in May for conspiring to obstruct justice. Last year after the Watergate affair had begun to unravel, Magruder joined one of the intimate "covenant" groups that Evans had started in order to feed the "spiritual hunger" in Washington. Jeb's wife Gail joined another (also attended by Mark Hatfield's wife Antoinette). The groups are small-typically only a dozen people who bind themselves to each other through eight principles or covenants. The principles include...