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Eisenhower. Apparently Billy’s ‘bar’ was not raised too high, because he saw our country’s
leaders (as well as other political leaders) as Christians, yet their fruit did not bear that out. Even
though he was a Democrat, in 1960, he wrote an article for Life magazine to endorse Richard
Nixon’s presidential candidacy, who was his “closest friend in the political world.” Henry Luce
refused to publish it because of pressure from the Kennedy camp.
He described President Johnson as a man whose “spiritual roots are deep in Texas,” and “a
man reared in deep religious faith that has prevailed in this Southwest country since the
beginning.”
Graham said that “Nixon held such noble standards of ethics and morality for the nation,”
and also said that he had “given moral and spiritual leadership to the nation at a time when we
desperately need it…” He claimed that Nixon had a “deep personal faith in God … Although he
doesn’t flaunt his faith publicly, I know him to be a deeply religious man.” When Nixon was the
recipient of quite a backlash from the American people for planning a trip to Red China, Billy
Graham flew to Washington, DC, and called a meeting at the White House of leading ministers
from across the country. Both he and Henry Kissinger were able to convince them that the trip to
Communist China was necessary. At his May, 1968 Crusade, he said that there was “no
American I admire more than Richard Nixon.”
He wrote about President Ford (a Mason, and member of the CFR): “I knew him to be a
professing Christian, and we had several times of prayer together. He was always warm, friendly,
and outgoing to me … A lot of us Christians saw him as a spiritual leader as well as a political
one.”
In an interview with the U.S. News and World Report on May 3, 1993 he said about President
Bill Clinton (pro-gay, pro-abortion, and adulterer): “I am quite impressed with his charisma and
with some of the things he believes. If he chose to preach the gospel instead of politics, he would
make a great evangelist.” His autobiography Just As I Am talks about being with Clinton on May
1, 1996, and said: “It was a time of warm fellowship with a man who has not always won the
approval of his fellow Christians but who has in his heart a desire to serve God and do His will.”
At a luncheon for 500 newspaper editors during their annual convention in Washington, D.C.,
Graham said that Clinton’s personal life and character were “irrelevant” and referred to him as a
“man of God.” He said: “I believe Bill has gone to his knees many times and asked God to help
him.”
There was a time (as reported by Parade magazine on February 1, 1981), when Graham said:
“Communism is inspired, directed, and motivated by the devil himself. America is at a crossroad.
Will we turn to the left-wingers and atheists, or will we turn to the right and embrace the Cross?”
There was a time when he called the communists, “satan worshipers,” and said in 1954: “Either
Communism must die, or Christianity must die, because it is actually a battle between Christ and
the Antichrist.”
In May 28, 1973, the Mainichi Daily News, in Tokyo, Japan, quoted Graham as saying:
“I think communism’s appeal to youth is its structure and promise of a future utopia. Mao
Tse-tung’s (China’s communist leader) eight precepts are basically the same as the Ten
Commandments. In fact, if we can’t have the Ten Commandments read in our schools,
I’ll settle for Mao’s precepts.”
In 1977, on a trip to Hungary, a Communist country, a deceived Graham talked about the
“religious freedom” there. In May, 1982, Graham was invited to speak at the World Conference