Billy Graham: A Tribute from Friends by Vernon McLellan

BILLY GRAHAM TOUCHED THEIR LIVES...

"Billy came to stay with Barbara and me at the White House on the eve of the air war against Iraq. Billy said a prayer for our troops and the innocents who might be killed...I cannot begin to tell what his faith meant to me as president and as commander in chief. His very presence brought great comfort to the people in uniform."   -GEORGE H. W. BUSH, former President of the United States

"It was June 1972...Dr. Graham ended his message by having the stadium lights turned off and then lighting a single candle from the podium, from which a second candle was lighted. The two candles then became four and continued to multiply until almost one hundred thousand candles illuminated the stadium with such a glow that nearby residents called the Dallas Fire Department to report the Cotton Bowl was on fire. And it was! Sparks of that spiritual fire kindled something in the life of that young man from Hope, Arkansas [who would, twenty-four years later] be sworn in as the forty-fourth governor of Arkansas, and Billy Graham would still be influencing his life. That young man was me." 

—MIKE HUCKABEE, Governor of Arkansas

"It's probably unfashionable these days to admit to having heroes but, quite unashamedly, I confess that Dr. Billy Graham is mine." 

-SIR CLIFF RICHARD, recording artist

"I asked Billy if he would go into the maximum-security segregation unit of Memphis State Prison to see those men who could not come out to hear him speak. Though his aides were pulling him back...we toured the cold, stark cellblock, and I watched Billy Graham clearly the greatest evangelist of the twentieth century—as he sat on the floor talking through the grate of a cell door to lead an inmate to Christ. There was no press present; no crowds to impress. This was the real Graham."

-CHUCK COLSON, founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries

Billy Graham's legacy is celebrated in a collection of poignant tributes and memories as leaders from the worlds of government, business, sports, entertainment and religion share their personal stories and remembrances of this remarkable man.