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Quote of the Day: Evangelist Billy Graham

Kevin Eckstrom

“I felt like slashing their throats. But anyway, God be with you.”

— Evangelist Billy Graham, in a recently released 1973 phone call with President Nixon, about CBS News’ coverage of Nixon’s speech on the Watergate scandal. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association issued a statement that said Graham at the time “wholeheartedly believed in the innocence of the president and used a euphemism to express righteous anger on his behalf.”

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