Come All Ye Faithful

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Evangelist Billy Graham returns to Los Angeles to address the faithful at the Rose Bowl tonight.

The Los Angeles Times published an interview with the preacher yesterday:

Graham, who celebrated his birthday Nov. 7, smiled gamely as he used an aluminum walker to shuffle into a room for an interview in Pasadena. He wears a hearing aid. The trademark glint in his blue eyes and his statements of faith remain as clear as the day he opened the Los Angeles revival in 1949 that catapulted him from a 6,000-seat "canvas cathedral" at the corner of Washington Boulevard and Hill Street to become a confidant of presidents.

Services will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday. A children's program will be at 10 a.m. Saturday and a youth concert at 6 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free, but there will be an offering. For more information, call (626) 793-8000 or see website http://www.billygraham.org .

Graham is scheduled to preach at all events except the children's program. Michael Reagan, the late president's son, will speak Sunday afternoon. Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, the sister of the mayor, is to give her testimony Thursday night. Graham's longtime crusade partners, music and program director Cliff Barrows and vocalist George Beverly Shey, also will participate.

"We needed a spiritual awakening in Los Angeles and in Southern California," the Rev. Lloyd Ogilvie, a former Senate chaplain and pastor emeritus of First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, told the Times reporter on Tuesday. He called Graham "the greatest evangelist since the Apostle Paul."

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Will the tapes of his conversations with President Nixon be played?

I totally thought Billy Graham was dead.

Yeah, the tapes with Nixon where he agrees that jews control the media!

For a link to an article go here:
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=ethnic_judaism&Number=293071310


If youre too lazy to go there here is a taste of the secretly recorded conversation between our "respectable" ex-President and Mr Graham:
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Rev. Billy Graham openly voiced a belief that Jews control the American media, calling it a "stranglehold" during a 1972 conversation with President Richard Nixon, according to a tape of the Oval Office meeting released Thursday by the National Archives.

"This stranglehold has got to be broken or the country's going down the drain," the nation's best-known preacher declared as he agreed with a stream of bigoted Nixon comments about Jews and their perceived influence in American life.

"You believe that?" Nixon says after the "stranglehold" comment.

"Yes, sir," Graham says.

"Oh, boy," replies Nixon. "So do I. I can't ever say that but I believe it."

"No, but if you get elected a second time, then we might be able to do something," Graham replies

Anyone expecting a protest?

I'm all for some large scale weapons testing at the Rose Bowl over the weekend.

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