Billy Graham
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Billy Graham is an evangelist of the Southern Baptist Convention persuasion. He first became famous in 1949 with an 8-week tent revival which caught the attention of the William Randolph Hearst newspaper chain. He has since staked out a niche as a moderate, "respectable" evangelist, spiritual counseler to many U.S. presidents, and a media go-to person to contrast with the usually scandalous and heavily politicized world of televangelism.
However, his apolitical reputation may be overrated as he was personally very close friends with Richard Nixon, and the Nixon tapes declassified in 2002 include a meeting between the two during which Graham and Nixon discussed a Jewish "stranglehold" on the media. His crusades have been well-attended and often turned into local media circus events wherever he appeared. Now quite elderly and suffering from Parkinson's disease and prostate cancer, he has all but retired from evangelism during the past few years.
