Page 76 - Billy Graham in Heaven

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America’s security interests? Without me there may not have been a fight against godless communism. And then you took MacArthur’s side too, that dumb son of a bitch!”
“I was mainly hurt that you didn’t consult me,” said Billy, smiling his devilishly handsome smile. “Henry Luce, Randolph Hearst and almost everyone was jumping on my evangelical train, but you weren’t even returning my calls. You wouldn’t even make an appearance in the `52 D.C. crusade that many Senators and Congressmen were standing in line to get into. Heck, ABC TV ran me every night. And then you lost China!”
Two black-hole monitors who’d been hovering nearby glided between the men. They were wearing traditional black tuxes, yet their heads were an eerie purple light, with no discernable features. When Graham looked at the one closest to him he saw himself scowling. When Truman looked at the one closest to him, he saw himself ranting. Both calmed down a bit.
“I didn’t lose China,” grumbled Truman quietly. “You really wanted to fight 600-million Chinese and let bloodthirsty MacArthur loose with atomic bombs?”
“Yeah,” agreed Graham, “I see what you mean. Again, I was very young and we were all tired of war after World War II.”
Jake finished reading about Graham and Truman, so Truman blipped out of the Heaven picture. Harry traveled through the cosmic soup to his haberdashery, to selling Homburg hats in Independence Missouri, then to blowing up Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Where he was located depended on what live people on Earth were thinking. Yet Jake still concluded that Truman’s inability to play