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  • Re: 1968: Billy Graham elected POTUS

    From mummycullen@mummycullen@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (MummyChunk) to soc.history.what-if on Mon Mar 3 13:22:18 2025
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    john0714 wrote:
    I was talking to a preacher friend of mine today about various
    scandals polticians have gotten into.
    He asked me who would make a better POTUS, one of those politicians or
    Billy Graham in his prime? I said Billy Graham. He disagreed claiming
    one of those politicians, due to experience and soforth, woul make a
    better POTUS.

    So let me ask you, considering Watergate and all that, how good or bad
    would it have been if Billy Graham were elected POTUS in 1968 instead
    of Nixon, and why?





    Not sure about 1968 but we could probably use someone like Billy Graham as POTUS right about now.


    This is a response to the post seen at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=98439064#98439064
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  • From The Horny Goat@lcraver@home.ca to soc.history.what-if on Wed Mar 5 10:30:04 2025
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    On Mon, 03 Mar 2025 13:22:18 -0500,
    mummycullen@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (MummyChunk) wrote:

    So let me ask you, considering Watergate and all that, how good or bad
    would it have been if Billy Graham were elected POTUS in 1968 instead
    of Nixon, and why?

    Not sure about 1968 but we could probably use someone like Billy Graham as POTUS right about now.

    Certainly a much better choice than his son Franklin who is very much
    tied to the hard core fundamentalist preachers - his father had the presidential connections he had because he wasn't - and was also far
    more empathic than Franklin.
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