{"id":1485,"date":"2009-11-09T16:45:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T16:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2009-11-09T16:45:30","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T16:45:30","slug":"perhaps-billy-grahams-greatest-regret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1485","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps Billy Graham's greatest regret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI've finally took the effort and found the picture taken in 1950, thanks to Corbis\/Bettmann who owns the right. Added to my album.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe first time I read of President Truman rebuke was from an edition of Times magazine feature Billy Graham on the cover.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is a good study, to see the repercussion of some great preachers' fault in public. I'm sure it played crucial impact to Graham's later attitude in faith and in the Lord's work be it good or bad consequences.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd then, to examine myself, less I be judged less by my Lord. That my righteousness exceeds such.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.itvs.org\/external\/WGOOS\/WGBGWH.gif\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFrom wikipedia:\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTruman wrote about Graham in his autobiography <em>Plain Speaking<\/em>:<br \/>\nBut now we've got just this one evangelist, this Billy Graham, and<br \/>\nhe's gone off the beam. He's...well, I hadn&rsquo;t ought to say this, but<br \/>\nhe&rsquo;s one of those counterfeits I was telling you about. He claims he's a<br \/>\nfriend of all the Presidents, but he was never a friend of mine when I<br \/>\nwas President. I just don&rsquo;t go for people like that. All he's interested<br \/>\nin is getting his name in the paper.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nInstead of really repented of his action, regretting his 'counterfeit' as a sinner, he'd rather regretted as a victim:<br \/>\nThe Truman story has  often been repeated by Graham himself, usually to<br \/>\njustify his refusal to  reveal the substance of his conversations with<br \/>\nother world leaders. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.highbeam.com\/doc\/1G1-19592304.html\" target=\"_blank\">When Worlds Collide<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I've finally took the effort and found the picture taken in 1950, thanks to Corbis\/Bettmann who owns the right. Added to my album. The first time I read of President Truman rebuke was from an edition of Times magazine feature &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1485\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}