In Nixon tapes, Billy Graham refers to 'synagogue of Satan'

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More Nixon tapes are released to public, on this tape Evangelical Christianity's true intolerant nature is revealed!

In Nixon tapes, Billy Graham refers to 'synagogue of Satan'

By Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY

A 1973 conversation between President Nixon and evangelist Billy Graham about Jews, laden with critical references including a Biblical verse on the "synagogue of Satan," has put the aging, frail Graham back in unwelcome headlines.

The conversation is part of newly-released secretly recorded tapes from the Nixon presidency, from the U.S. National Archives in College Park, Md., and the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, Calif. A sampling of more than 150 hours of tape recordings and 30,000 pages of documents from two months in 1973 were made public Tuesday (download at Nixon.archives.gov/National Archives), culled from 4,000 hours of taped meetings and phone calls in a two-year period.

An earlier release of tapes in 2002 shocked fans of Graham, who is heard agreeing with Nixon as the president rails against liberal Jews' political activism and media clout. Graham tells Nixon how Jews befriend him but adds, "They don't know how I really feel about what they're doing to this country."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-06-24-graham-tapes_N.htm?csp=34

[aquart]

1. What a guy.

Pleased to recall that I never liked him.

[liberal N proud]

2. Shedding light on Graham

So many people thought he was such an infallible person. LOL.

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3. Nixon and the Jews. Again. (Salon | 2002)

... reporters pounced on this 1972 exchange about Jews in the media between Nixon and the Rev. Billy Graham:

BG: This stranglehold has got to be broken or the country's going down the drain.

RN: You believe that?

BG: Yes, sir.

RN: Oh, boy. So do I. I can't ever say that, but I believe it.

BG: No, but if you get elected a second time, then we might be able to do something.

As the Chicago Tribune noted, Nixon, Graham, and Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman also cracked anti-Semitic jokes, discussed which journalists were Jewish, and lamented that Washington reporting had deteriorated since Jews entered the trade ...

http://www.slate.com/id/2063030/

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4. CBS News Edits Out Billy Graham Reference To "Synagogue Of Satan" (Tiny Revolution)

June 24, 2009
... The whole thing is well worth listening to if you're a connoisseur of the psychosis of the people who run this planet ... http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/002996.html