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68 Billy Graham's Glorious Jam
about golf was that much of the business of running America got transacted while leisurely playing eighteen holes. If you didn’t know how to play a passable game, you might miss out on the action.
One night Graham sat alone on the course’s beautiful 18th green. He was shattered by a religious crisis, shamed by his evil thoughts, then cleansed by divine forgiveness. He emerged from that final hole determined to spread the Holy Word.
Dr. Graham re-experienced the conversion scene in Heaven as Jake read about it in a Graham bio, complete with fresh-cut grass smells and lightening-bug fireworks. Then Jake read about Graham’s first meeting with a President. So Give ‘Em Hell Harry Truman actually showed up in Heaven on a cloud recliner next to Graham, looking his cute, aging-Hobbit self.
“I thought you were some young whippersnapper trying to use my office for your own glorification,” said Truman, dispensing with greeting pleasantries. “That’s why I never invited you back to the White House. That and the fact that you immediately told the press all that went on in our private meeting. I loved God as much as you, just not as publicly.”
“Well that takes a weight off my mind,” said Graham. “I thought you might be godless. And I have to admit that was a dumb thing for me to do. But I was awed to be in the presence of the President for the first time.”
“And what was this hounding me about communism?” said Truman angrily. “I invented the Cold War! Who else would have decided Korea, some obscure country way across the Pacific Ocean, had anything to do with


































































































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