{"id":5568,"date":"2010-04-26T12:05:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T09:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=5568"},"modified":"2010-04-26T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T09:06:00","slug":"barack-obama-visits-billy-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/barack-obama-visits-billy-graham\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama visits Rev. Billy Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Barack<\/a>US President Obama met and prayed with the Rev. Billy Graham for the first time Sunday – days after his administration dumped the ailing evangelist’s son from a national prayer program.<\/strong><\/p>\n

During the half-hour visit, the first by a President to Graham’s home in Montreat, N.C., the 91-year-old “Thunderer” gave Bibles to Obama and the First Lady.<\/p>\n

Obama was “extraordinarily gratified that he took the time to meet with him,” White House spokesman Bill Burton said of Graham, who has met and counseled all Presidents since Harry Truman.<\/p>\n

Last week, the Pentagon dropped the Rev. Franklin Graham from the program for the May 6 National Day of Prayer for calling Islam an “evil religion.”<\/p>\n

Franklin Graham, who attended the meeting with his father, said Billy Graham talked about golf with Obama and they reminisced about Chicago, where the elder Graham attended Wheaton College.<\/p>\n

“The conversation was very cordial, very nice,” the younger Graham said. “When the President got ready to leave, the President prayed for my father, my father prayed for him.”<\/p>\n

Obama confided, like other Presidents before him, how lonely, demanding and humbling the presidency can be, Graham spokesman Larry Ross said.<\/p>\n

“That is a discussion that Mr. Graham has had with previous Presidents who realize not only the demands but the loneliness of the job,” Ross said. “And they’re humbled by that.”<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 12)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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