Walter Reed Hospital - President Eisenhower and Billy Graham

Years down the road, Graham met with Eisenhower at Walter Reed Hospital a few months before the president passed away. Graham recalls the conversation in his autobiography, “Just As I Am”:

“As my scheduled twenty minutes with him extended to thirty, he asked the doctor and nurses to leave us. Propped up on pillows amidst intravenous tubes, he took my hand and looked into my eyes. ‘Billy, you’ve told me how to be sure my sins are forgiven and that I’m going to Heaven. Would you tell me again?’

I took out my New Testament and read to him the familiar Gospel verses, the precious promise of God about eternal life. Then, my hand still in his, I prayed briefly.

‘Thank you,’ he said. ‘I’m ready.’”

–Billy Graham Library

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