Word: revs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rev. Norman Vincent Peale and the Rev. Billy Graham were for a time well publicized White House habitues. The East Room Sunday worship service was a Nixon creation. The President was an enthusiastic patron of the various prayer breakfasts round Washington...
Billy Graham, who successfully prospected for sin from Korea to Denmark but strangely could not find it for five years in the White House where he prayed, has been saddened by 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...
...attitude and an almost indefinable sense of wellbeing. It is a feeling of being a useful, functioning part of society-not indispensable perhaps, but not easily dispensed with either. "Middle class means you can live above the survival level and have some whims as well as needs," says the Rev. William Lawson, a Baptist preacher in Houston. For Mary Davis, a Chicago urban planner, being middle class means "going to a good school, being clean and taking a bath." Evelyn Thompson, a reporter for KOOL-TV in Phoenix, recalling the well-done cuts of cheap pork that poor blacks consume...
...liberals always reminding you that if you take two steps forward, you always have to remember your un fortunate brethren. Look at white people who live in the rich suburb of Barrington Hills. They don't go down to Cicero and mingle with the blue-collar workers." The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, once jokingly reprimanded a black doctor from Detroit for driving a Rolls-Royce. Responded the doctor: "Reverend, I said I would help the poor. I didn't say I was going to be poor...
...they try," she declared. There were those in the audience who thought she was perhaps referring to Sly's former reputation for failing to fulfill engagements. Then she introduced Family Friend Bishop B.R. Stewart of the Church of God in Christ, who had replaced, at her insistence, the Rev. Ike. Explained a Sly aide: "The only denomination Ike knows anything about...